In the meeting celebrated this Wednesday between the president of the Managing Commission of the FC Barcelona, Carles Tusquets, and the three presidential candidates of the club, Joan Laporta, Víctor Font and Toni Freixa, arrived to the consensus of not advancing the votes to 28 February, as it had suggested Tusquets and, instead, keep the date of 7 March like the day to choose to the substitute of Josep María Bartomeu.
It is the date that had agreed in the last meeting, the past Friday, but after the approval of the Government of Catalonia of the law to allow the vote by post, was on the table the possibility to advance the elections a week. However, taking in account the critical situation that crosses in this moment by the pandemia, has reaffirmed that it is preferable to carry them out on 7 March, when it expects that they reduce the positive cases by Covid-19 in Catalonia.
Now, after the meeting of the candidates and the Managing Commission, only does fault that the FC Barcelona communicate of official form the electoral calendar, with which also will know the dates in which the applicants to the presidency will be able to carry out his campaigns to achieve more voters. It expects that andl Tuesday the club take the final decision and announce the dates.
Joan Laporta, in fact, aimed after his exit of the offices blaugrana that will know the details the Tuesday and that he, in condition of candidate, can not participate in this type of details, like the date, further to give his opinion. "It will decide it the Agent next Tuesday. I can not say at all more. It would be especular. By things that are happening, the argumentation changes. It is not my function participate in what it decide the Agent because I can not attribute me my faculties and could interpret that are viciando the electoral process. It is well that they go us informing and already will say us", highlighted.
Font himself Has given more details
The presidential candidate of the FC Barcelona, Víctor Font, yes has offered more details regarding the decision to keep on 7 March like date for the elections, aiming that with the votes to the Parlament of Catalonia, of 14 February, makes impossible that the Barça have his comicios the same month, since they can not "coincide two processes in posts at the same time", aimed. Font Has expressed that in the meeting "have explained us the terms day in day out and week by week of what would involve the vote by post and this has done that the ones of the Barça are on 7 March although we are expecting in case they could lengthen ".
This yes, the elections continue depending on the evolution of the pandemia in Catalonia, by what the candidate ensured that "the best option so that the elections took place without problems would be the electronic vote. We know that if there is political will by part of the club, seeing the one who there has been in the Generalitat, could do if it did lacking. Ojalá There is not more atrasos". Finally, it has desvelado that the Managing Commission has given his seen well to that expand the campaign, that, of agreement the Statutes of the club, only is of eight just days before the elections. "The partners would begin to exert the right to vote on 16 February and this does that it could expand the campaign and can campaign from already same to ensure that we can contrast projects the before possible", sentenced.