A working group of the Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) has drafted amendments to its statutes, following proposals to introduce direct management of the federation.
Submitted by the special working group to the LFF member conference, the draft amendments propose to introduce a clause on the need for all elected LFF executives to meet reputational requirements set out in the directives of the international football organisations – FIFA and UEFA.
Also, a possibility should be created for Lithuania’s top-level football clubs to directly delegate their representatives to the LFF conference, and for the organisation’s president and vice presidents, members of the Executive Committee, and members of the Ethics Commission to be elected at the conference.
Last week, 82 Lithuanian lawmakers registered a special bill on the temporary introduction of the LFF’s direct management.
Under the bill, the LFF conference would get the powers of electing the federation’s president, vice presidents and the Executive Committee. The latter currently consists of persons delegated by the LFF members.
Also, persons who have been convicted of a criminal offence could not be members of the LFF governing bodies, the bill proposes.
The LFF says the next meeting of the special working group will take place in person during a visit of FIFA and UEFA experts to Lithuania.
The executives of the international football organisations are scheduled to visit Lithuania in October and November when they will meet with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda, Speaker of the Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, the LFF said.
On Monday, Šimonytė sent a letter inviting FIFA and UEFA to work together on the resolution of LFF problems.
FIFA and UEFA said last week that if the Lithuanian Seimas adopted the proposed law on the LFF’s temporary direct management, the country’s national teams and Lithuanian football clubs would face suspension from FIFA and UEFA-organised tournaments.
Moreover, the LFF could see the suspension of all its powers as a FIFA and UEFA member, as well as the termination of FIFA and UEFA’s financial assistance to Lithuanian football.
In recent years, the LFF has been criticised for poor sports results and some of its officials having links to the criminal world.
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