After the strong complaint about the lack of subsidies for sport and the failure to respect the “self-financing of the ENARDWhat did you do over the weekend Luca Saucedofencing master and one of the coaches who accompanied the Argentine fencers to the South American Games in Asunción, the Sports Secretary of the Nation issued a statement to “make it clear to the community in general and to sport in particular that no laws are being violated, as has been mentioned”.
“Article 39 of the ENARD law which granted the direct financing of 1% of mobile telephony was repealed in December 2017 by the government of Maurizio Macri“explained the body led by Ines Arrondo. “ENARD has received a 189% budget increase for this year and has gone from 1,225 million pesos to 3,923 million, an advantage announced in a timely manner by the media.”
The text was accompanied by two graphs showing “the annual budget of the National Secretariat of Sport and ENARD in the last 8 years, where the difference in treatment reserved for sport in the different periods of government is clearly appreciated.
That explanation came in response to Saucedo’s claim, which he had claimed, in an interview with TyC Sport -after the women’s saber team won the bronze medal in Asunción-, which continues to “steal the silver from 1%”.
“The self-financing of the Enard is not respected by the law. If the law is not respected, what is it? A robbery. And I say it: Lucas Saucedo, master of fencing. So I ask the executives to abide by the law and return the ‘1% to them, to me, because 1% belongs to all of them, to keep generating more Pareto, Belene (for the fencer Belen Perez Maurice, who has coached for years), as well as Lions. It’s the only way, “she asked.
What was the coach referring to? For Law 26.573 of December 2009, which decreed the creation of ENARD (National Body for High Performance Sports) as an autarchic body that was to be financed with the “product of a one percent (1%) fee, applied to the price of subscription for mobile phone companies to bill their customers.
The strategy worked in such a way that the best sporting results occurred in the Olympic cycle from 2012 to 2016.
But, as the press release from the Sports Secretariat clarifies, article 39 establishing this funding system was repealed in November 2017, as part of the Tax Reform project that was sent to the Congress former president Mauricio Macri.
Since then, ENARD has begun to be funded with one voice, namely that the money has since flowed out of the National Treasury. And according to many Argentine athletes and coaches, this was taking a step backwards.
“The other countries are growing and we are left behind. Everything we did well … The miracle that Enard does with what little he has, I think if they come back we will have more Pareto, more Lions, more boys from volleyball, plus Belen. Sorry, but I’m overheated with that argument. Because it can’t be that a fencer of your stature (by Pérez Maurice) earns what she earns, which is less than the baseline, “Saucedo said.
The Secretariat replied today that the scholarships for athletes, coaches and coaches, “will receive an increase of 109% for this year, with the intent that they do not become obsolete and gradually recover the 50 points lost during the management of the previous government. “.
And he closed: “With reference to the preparation of nationally representative athletes, it is important to remember that the entire annual work plan jointly planned between the national federations and ENARD is underway in its entirety. preparatory competitions of each selected, requested by the Sports Federations, are being covered “.
Source: Clarin
