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The fire is not about to end in the FC Barcelona offices. The club is going through crucial moments, at a sporting, institutional and economic level, with the failure of the registrations of Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor for the second part of the season, even if the case of the Catalan playmaker is much more worrying due to the numbers involved in his signature and contract. Meanwhile, Joan Laporta continues to be attacked from all sides. Already last week, Víctor Font, great political opponent and leader of the project If the Futurepointed out the catastrophic management of the registrations of Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor. The former candidate for the presidency of FC Barcelona had published a harsh statement in which he accused Joan Laporta of improvisation, lack of professionalism and harming the entity on an economic, sporting and institutional level. He further asked him to explain his actions: “We hope that the situation of the two players can be resolved, but we consider it intolerable that the highest manager of Barça acts in this way and offers this image. This is why we demand that the board of directors and president Joan Laporta immediately give all the necessary explanations to detail the actions they have taken and what the consequences will be.is written in the official press release published by the fierce opponent.
But Víctor Font is no longer alone in leading a revolt against Joan Laporta. Indeed, social groups, platforms and associations linked to the Barça club published a letter last Sunday ordering the departure of Joan Laporta and his board of directors. Due to the poor management of the cases of Dani Olmo and Pau Victor, still waiting for authorization to play in the Barcelona jersey, but also the non-signing of Thomas Heurtel for the basketball section. The supporters’ associations also pointed out the management of the club’s accounts and revenues for the 2023/2024 season, as well as the difficulty of renewing the partnership with Nike which ensued. Faced with this official letter from the club’s members, the president of Barça does not intend to change his plans or resign. And according to information from the Catalan press, this popular outcry will be joined by significant reinforcements. In fact, the newspaper SPORT learned that this Tuesday morning, in the premises of the Spotify Camp Nou, Jordi Farré plans to present a motion of censure against the highest Blaugrana leader. Leading member of FC Barcelona, promoter of the motion of censure against Josep Maria Bartomeu in 2020 and pre-candidate for the elections to the presidency of the club in 2021, Jordi Farré took the decision to activate the mechanism available to the social mass of the club. institution to dismiss Joan Laporta.
A motion of censure will be filed!
In an interview with the newspaper SPORT published at the end of August 2024, Jordi Farré already announced that he was ready to present a motion of censure against Joan Laporta if the socios asked him to do so. The former candidate for the presidency of Barça was then very critical of the management of the Catalan president, which he described as “scandalous”: “Laporta must resign immediately. In fact, I am thinking very seriously, and if people ask me, I will table a motion of censure. I think Laporta is a problem for the future of the club. There are groups of socios who appear and who say it over and over again, but I have the feeling that this is the case. The only thing they want is a media quota, because in the end, no one does anything“. Farré, as he had already done in 2020 with Bartomeu, therefore decided to take action. The problems linked to the registration of Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor were the straw that broke a glass which, for him, had been too full for a long time. But what will happen in the future? As in politics, removing a president does not happen with the snap of a finger. A very strict process must be respected.
The presentation of Jordi Farré in the premises of FC Barcelona is only the first step to activate the motion of censure. He must send a letter to the board of directors indicating the purpose and reasons. Then, he will request the ballots so that club members can support the motion. The board will have five business days to provide these ballots to the proponents of the motion. Once in possession, they will have fourteen working days, starting from the day after receipt of the tickets, to present the formal request to the Board of Directors, in which they will indicate the motivation, the members of the Board of Directors who must present to censorship by attaching support tickets. They must present more than 16,000 supporters, with 15% of members having the right to vote. If they reach them, the Censorship Voting Table will be organized and will then have ten working days to validate the support. If this comes to fruition, the board of directors will have to take a vote. For the motion to pass, two-thirds of the voting members must vote in favor, and a minimum of 10% of the voting members must vote.
