The electoral board of FC Barcelona has proclaimed John Laporta y Victor Font as candidates for the elections for the presidency of the entity, scheduled for March 15, while the pre-candidate Marc Ciria has been left out of the elections by not reaching the minimum of 2,337 validated ballots.
the doorthe one that presented the most signatures (8,169), is also the one that has achieved the most validation (7.226), ahead of Victor Fontwhich he has obtained from 4.440 of the 5,144 that he contributed, and from Marc Ciria, who has seen how 2,247 supports have been accepted of the 2,844 that he submitted.
Así lo ha anunciado en rueda de prensa la junta electoral, reunida este jueves en el Auditori 1899 del Spotify Camp Nou y formada por J. Ignacio Soler-Cabot Serra, como presidente, y los vocales Jordi Serra Macià, Gerard Coderch Bastias, Mercè Ibarz Domingo y Antoni Ortega i Bayo. The acting vice president of FC Barcelona and secretary of the board of directors, Josep Cubells, presented the results.
March 15 electionswhich will coincide with the matchday 28 match of LaLiga EA Sports between Barcelona and Sevilla at the Spotify Camp Nou.
The club spokesperson has celebrated that the process of validation of the signatures has occurred “without notable incidents”although it has revealed that a pre-candidacy submitted two applications during the electoral process.
Laporta will run for the fourth term; second chance for Font
In this way, Laporta will opt for re-election. The lawyer Laporta directed the entity between 2003 and 2010when he could not run for office after exhausting the limit of two consecutive terms established by the statutes.
After losing in the 2015 elections to Joseph Maria Bartomeu
a third candidate, Toni Freixawhich obtained 4,769 votes (8.58%).
