Four candidates for the presidency of Barcelona presented in the club offices a number of signatures higher than 2, 257 necessary to become candidates for the hottest position in European football: Joan Laporta, Víctor Font, Toni Freixa and Emili Rousaud
Laporta was the one who contributed the most, with 10. 257 firms; followed by Víctor Font, with 4. 710 ; Toni Freixa, with 2. 821 ; and Emili Rousaud, with 2. 510.
After this partial victory, Laporta declared that he does not think about whether he is a “favorite or not”, but he admitted that his team is going “ with winning morale and this should translate into many votes. ”
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In addition, he considered that despite the sanitary restrictions the elections must be held because “Barça cannot be ungoverned any longer.”
Font announced its 4 . 710 signed hours before handing them over to the club in a statement thanking the effort “to all the people who during these days they have gone to the headquarters or have gone to one of the more than 200 collection points ”.
Freixa, meanwhile, had 2. 821 endorsements and Rousaud , the candidate who will be fairer in the validation of the support, admitted that does not have “a very wide margin”, but trusts “that everything goes well” . According to him, his team “has made an extraordinary effort taking into account the circumstances of the pandemic.”
In the recent elections who contributed the largest number of signatures was not always the winner of the final votes , it happened in 2003, when precisely Joan Laporta was the third classified in the cut of the firms behind Lluís Bassat and Jaume Llauradó and later won the elections widely.
Laporta gets more than double the number of signatures of which it achieved in 2015. pic.twitter.com/bf47k2T7RO
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From this Tuesday until Thursday it will take place the validation of signatures and the proclamation of the candidates before on Friday 15 the electoral campaign officially begins , which will end the day 22 to make way for a reflection day before the voting day of Sunday 24 January.
