Rodríguez Uribes underlines the commitment of the CSD to comply with the “Decalogue of the paralympic political agenda”

The President of the Superior Sports Council, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, has spoken in the Congress of Deputies in the presentation of the “Decalogue of the paralympic political agenda”, a battery of measures promoted by the Spanish Paralympic Committee and CERMI to promote advances in the sport of people with disabilities in the period 2025-2028.

Madrid, 1 July 2025.- The President of the Superior Sports Council (CSD), José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, spoke this Tuesday in the Congress of Deputies at the presentation of the “Decalogue of the paralympic political agenda”, an initiative of the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE) and the Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (CERMI) to promote progress in the sport practiced by people with disabilities during the period 2025-2028.

During his presentation, accompanying the president of the CPE, Alberto Durán, and that of CERMI, Luis Cayo Pérez, Rodríguez Uribes has underlined the commitment of the Government of Spain to continue promoting improvements in this area in the coming years, in which the line of work developed during the cycle between the Tokyo and Paris Games will be continued.

“The reality of recent years in the fight for the rights of people with disabilities in sport is a struggle for success,” said the president of the CSD.

Among the main advances, Rodríguez Uribes has pointed out the reform of the Constitution, in order to “eliminate the obstacles to equality being real and effective”; the equalization of the economic value of medals between Olympic and Paralympic athletes, “a fundamental achievement, with great symbolic value”; the Sports Law, “the most advanced in the world in terms of disability”; and the important modernization of sports facilities promoted by the Government, to make them more accessible.

The president of the CSD recalled that “sport is a right”, which “generates correlative obligations in society as a whole and is a guarantee that we will move forward”.

Rodríguez Uribes has also announced the next celebration of the Sectoral Conference of Sport with the Autonomous Communities, in which paralympic sport will have priority attention as an axis of social transformation.

In broad terms, the CPE/CERMI action decalogue seeks that any sports policy must take into account people with disabilities in a transversal way in each and every one of the proposals made, but also promote specific measures of positive discrimination or promotion of inclusion at all levels, from grassroots sport, leisure and recreation to the high level, passing through federated sport and competition.

The decalogue aims to give continuity to the process of inclusion of athletes with disabilities in all sports federations promoted by the Sports Law; make progress in eliminating differences in criteria of access to aid; improve the technical regulation of conditions of accessibility of sports facilities; improve the formulas of financing and cost reduction of specific sports material; promote inclusive education in schools and children; and develop an adequate and stable fiscal framework for sponsorships in favor of the sport of people with disabilities, among other measures.

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