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First of all, the context.

The Professional Football League, which has been under the “patronage” of Gino Iorgulescu since the fall of 2013, is preparing for an intense period, decisive for her and the current president's future.

In the next Extraordinary General Assembly of the LPF, scheduled to take place on November 13, the clubs were informed that they will have on the agenda the topic related to the modification of the current status of the LPF. Indirectly, the pose also targets the situation of Gino Iorgulescu, whose mandate comes to an end in 2027, when the forum will organize new elections.

The current statute was voted during Iorgulescu's mandate! How come this, I was operating on the wrong status? Gino Iorgulescu has been at LPF since 2013. It is 12 years, but he still does not believe that he has already exceeded two five-year mandates, as it is written in the statute voted in his mandate! There's nothing wrong with improving a status, but when the same person changes it as they see fit, it's not very moral.
– leader of League 1, under the protection of anonymity

The discussions will take place at Poiana Brașov, at the Hotel Aurelius Împaratul Romanilor, in an Extraordinary General Meeting that is announced to be an “incendiary” one. ProSport wrote about the subject in the first phase, which announced that the discussions will include three points, the first of which is the modification of the LPF statute.

“It is for the first time in history that an Extraordinary General Assembly of the LPF is not organized in Bucharest”, stated the football people consulted by Gazetă.

According to the quoted source, a first amendment to the statute implies an update of the current point 5which currently provides that: “the president of the LPF is elected by the General Assembly of the LPF for a 5-year term. People who have held this position for 2 (two) terms, consecutive or full or incomplete, will not be able to run for the position of president of the LPF”.

The change for which the clubs were invited to prospect presents a subtle change, with the new configuration of the statute only stipulating: “The President of the LPF is elected by the General Assembly of the LPF for a 5-year term”.

Basically, a handy “shortcut” for Gino to get a new mandate.

But that's not all, because in the “menu” there would be another important change, one intended to put the potential counter-candidates out of the picture. At the same time, LPF plans to implement stricter conditions for candidates, which would narrow the list of Iorgulescu's opponents.

In the new “draft” proposed by the League, there is also a “clause” that confuses those who plan to run.

Thus, those who want to submit their candidacy should have an extremely solid background to be able to enter the fray:

The persons proposed to run for the position of president must cumulatively fulfill the following conditions: have Romanian citizenship, have long-term higher education graduated with a bachelor's degree, not have suffered criminal convictions depriving of liberty and not have been declared persona non grata by the FRF General Assembly… “and have at least 5 years of uninterrupted experience in managing a sports structure active in the field of football, at League 1 level, including at the level of LPF and the Romanian Football Federation.

-Modification of the future status of the LPF

Dani Coman, the president of FC Argeș, is one of the voices critical of the “Iorgulescu regime”, speculating about him that he would “hunt” Gino's seat. From the information put together by GSP in the last hours, Dani Coman, the main opponent of Iorgulescu, is also preparing to take appropriate positions at the meeting on November 13.

Gino Iorgulescu, president of the LPF

From the information obtained by Gazeta Sporturilor, there was an extremely vocal and critical club regarding the new changes proposed by the LPF. Dinamo, through the voice of the president Andrei Nicolescu, is trying to prevent the implementation of the new “updates” in the statute, carrying out a work of persuasion with the other clubs in League 1 so that the LPF plan does not go to the next level.

The site's sources reveal that Andrei Nicolescu has taken a firm position in this whole controversy, contesting the League's plan to change a regulation drawn up by Gino Iorgulescu himself, during his own reign!

In short, Dinamo is putting up with the more or less pronounced desire of Gino Iorgulescu to award himself a new mandate.

Andrei Nicolescu, Dinamo's president, initiated a movement aimed at stopping Iorgulescu's plans

During this period, Dinamo drew up a document in which they openly express their dissatisfaction, the “revolutionary act” reaching the possession of all clubs in the first league.

“Dogs” complain about violation of current statutory provisionsof lack of transparency and consultationin the context in which the clubs did not receive the full draft of the changes for legal analysis in a timely manner, suspecting also a possible conflict of interest from which Gino Iorgulescu and his plan will profit.

In essence, Dinamo requests the postponement or removal from the agenda of the amendment of the statute, citing time for a thorough legal review and consultation with all clubs.

In the hypothesis in which the project to amend the LPF Statute is subject to block approval, as a unitary whole, in the form of the submitted annex, Dinamo 1948 SA Club expresses its voting option from now on against.
– fragment of the Address sent by Dinamo to LPF and to all clubs in League 1

The “Dogs” also request a new economic model for the functionality of the Superliga, more adapted to current realities.

Dinamo also put on the carpet complaints related to the current TV rights contract, which he considers ineffective and not very feasible in the long term. In the context of technological expansion, clubs fear that the current contract may lose its legitimacy in favor of tools such as YouTube or the pay-per-view regime.

In particular, many of the clubs in the first league are deeply dissatisfied with the sums due to them following the distribution of checks from the TV rights.

And Dinamo requests total transparency regarding the negotiations for the future contract of television rights, especially on a few aspects: the distribution of the amounts between the clubs and what criteria will be used in this process.

In the period 2025-2032, the amount of TV rights for each season will be 37 million euros. This was voted in August in the LPF General Assembly with 15 PRO votes, from 16 clubs present. Dinamo was the only club that abstained.

There are things out of place about this contract. What does an LPF president do? Sell ​​TV rights. And Gino Iorgulescu also sold them for the next mandate of the LPF president. What if, in theory, someone comes along who negotiates them better and sells them for a higher amount? It comes for nothing, that the rights are given. Another aspect. 25 years ago, no one imagined that we would be able to watch matches on mobile. Then we were happy that we were no longer stopping at landlines. Who knows how technology will develop in a few years? Maybe TVs will be obsolete, TVs will disappear! Maybe other platforms will appear where the broadcasts could be done! If all the transmissions are moved to who knows which social network, if the televisions disappear? There's no way you can sign a contract with such a long duration, as long as technology is changing the world so quickly.
– leader of League 1, under the protection of anonymity

Clubs that have a clear long-term strategy are interested in making a lot of money. Those who are under no illusions that they will last long are willing to accept anything, but now, while they are still at this table
– leader of League 1, under the protection of anonymity

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Will Gino Iorgulescu run again?

Invited in July to GSP Live, Justin Ștefan, the general secretary of the Professional Football League, said that he “does not see why” the current president of the LPF, Gino Iorgulescu, would not run for a new mandate in 2027 at the head of the institution that governs the football Super League. He claimed that he would enter the race only if Iorgulescu was not on the list.

In May 2022, Gino Iorgulescu was unanimously elected for his third term at the head of the Professional Football League. At that time, the legality of the mandate was questioned, but Justin Ștefan, a lawyer by profession, argued that the statute provision limiting the number of mandates to two “came into effect after the first mandate, so it counts from that moment.”

Originally voted in 2014, the statute provision limiting the number of mandates to two came into force only in Gino Iorgulescu's second term (2017-2022), so that the League officials consider the mandate that began in 2022 to be, technically, the first held by Iorgulescu!

This interpretation of the statute allows the current LPF president to run for another term – the last one, theoretically – in 2027.

“You have to ask him. It's certainly a situation that I can tell you he's analyzing,” said Justin Ștefan on GSP Live, when he was asked if Gino Iorgulescu will also run for the 2027 election.

(…) Given that he will manage to deliver long-term stability for League 1 clubs, I don't see why he wouldn't [mai] run. To the extent that it will deliver a television contract with increased value and provide the certainty of stability at a difficult time for the economy in Romania, where League 1 clubs are tributary to TV rights, it would certainly seem fair to me to consider a possible candidacy.

In the end, the main obligation of the LPF president is to deliver stability for the clubs in League 1. And I think that Gino Iorgulescu did this job, with all the swearing he received all these years.

Nothing can be blamed on him, not even that he got into the competition, supporting some clubs to the detriment of others, in arbitrations or that he would have caused any other kind of discussion. That is, he was not a player-president, but one who stayed aside and went about his business, according to the statute”, said the general secretary of the LPF at that time.

The General Assembly of the Professional Football League voted on Monday, January 20, 2014, unanimously approving article 24 point 5 of the Statute of the Professional Football League, which stipulates that the president of the LPF be elected for a 5-year term by the members of the assembly. Persons who have held this position for 2 consecutive terms or not, complete or incomplete, will not be able to run for the position of president of the LPF.

– Announcement of the League in 2014