FC Barcelona will keep their electoral calendar, for now

The increase of cases of Covid-19 in the last weeks has caused that they take new measures to avoid a new wave of contagions. In Catalonia will go in in force new protocols to brake the ascending line of positive cases. From the 7 until 17 January is fixed, between other measures, a confinement perimetral of municipal order.

It is a situation that has arrived in the middle of the recolección of signatures of the precandidatos to the presidency of the FC Barcelona and that, to follow intensifying the measures, can affect the electoral calendar. By the moments, as it has informed 'Sportive World', the guidelines regarding the dates keep , although no descarta that this decision can change if they continue increasing the cases.

Further of the elections, for the club, in group with the Generalitat, the health of the partners is the most important. Ronald Koeman already recognised in press conference that the best would be that the elections produced "in what before", but can not overlook the sanitary measures and, in a moment so cambiante of the pandemia, the calendar could suffer unexpected changes.

Fernández Alà, one of the applicants to the charge, had asked that they postponed at least five days the elections, in the middle of the sanitary crisis that lives Spain and all the planet. The employer of Sant Cugat said that it was necessary to give a term, by the confinement perimetral of the next days, with what the partners will not be able to movilizarse neither the applicants gather the necessary signatures.

However, as it has expressed 'MD', for now will not have modifications. The newspaper aimed that the Electoral Board gathered this Tuesday during four hours and determined that the applicants to the presidency of the Barça will have opportunity of recolectar his signatures until 11 January, as already it had posed . It remains a pending meeting, on 14 January, with the Generalitat, to confirm the sanitary protocols and of security the day of the elections.

The position of the Electoral Board

The attendants to carry out the elections have posed three points to justify that they will not have changes in the dates pautadas for the comicios blaugrana. First, they have expressed that the terms of the electoral calendar are fixed in the Statutes and the dates have been formally communicated and summoned. To his time, highlight that the restrictions of mobility are extraneous to the Club and affect to all the world by equal.

Finally, they have signalled that the club is doing the timely management with the General Secretary of l'Esport with such to guarantee to the maximum the collected of ballots of support to the precandidatos and the right of the partners to be able to sign them.