ELECTORAL PECULIARITIES
From the vote in the Camp Nou until "Umtiti president": curiosities of the elections culés
Published:8/03/2021 - 17:16h
Updated:8/03/2021 - 18:56h
Further of the victory of Joan Laporta, the presidential elections of the Barcelona left some peculiarities regarding his process
This Sunday celebrated the presidential elections of the FC Barcelona, in which it went out like winner the candidate Joan Laporta, imposing to Víctor Font and to Toni Freixa. Without leaving to a side the victory of the ex-president culé, this process left some peculiarities and curiosities, that go from the distinct that it was the process until the unusual of some invalid votes.
Regarding the process of vote, gave the peculiarity that the partners did not vote in carps, like sucedió in past occasions. They did it in the same Camp Nou and in the Palau Blaugrana where installed 101 and five points of vote, respectively, to facilitate the course of the election by part of the involved.
Incidentally, as it also happened in the autonomic elections of Catalonia, to the hour to do the headcount of the votes, the members of the tables planted the EPI (Team of Individual Protection). This facilitated the process of scrutiny of the election, which launched the result of the victory of Laporta for the 23:00 hours, roughly.
On the other hand, can observe that each one of the electoral tables were custodiadas by a pair of people, properly instrumented with the requests of contingency in front of the covid-19. Incidentally, near of the "protective "" of each one of the tables, there was a stove of fire, positioned to avoid the cold.
Regarding the personalities tied to the surroundings of the Barcelona that attended to exert his vote of manual form, could observe to players like Lionel Messi, Sergi Roberto, Sergio Busquets, to exjugadores like Bojan Krkic or Carles Puyol or to the exmandatarios Sandro Rosell and Josep María Bartomeu. However, extrañó the absence of Gerard Piqué, the one who probably was one of the partners that voted by email.
"Umtiti President", the most curious vote
Although it seem incredible, there was a partner of the Barcelona that, of funny and particular form, did not choose to any of the three official candidates for the elections and decanted by the fictitious presidential proposal of Samuel Umtiti, writing "Umtiti president" in the ballot. Clearly, it went one of the invalid votes of the day, but did not leave to be a curious fact.
ONE OF THE VOTES OF YESTERDAY THAT HAS BEEN CANCELLED?
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