The promoters of the motion of censure against Bartomeu collected 7,500 signatures during the first week

This Tuesday, a week ago, the 14 working days of the promoters of the motion of censure against the board of Josep Maria Bartomeu began to run to collect 16,500 signed ballots. A figure that represents 15% of Barça’s electoral census, which is needed, according to the club’s statutes, to make the process prosper. Just the day the first figures were announced, officials also denounced a computer attack of unknown origin that makes it impossible to access the website, which so far has more than 200,000 unique visits.

According to the groups driving the motion, during the first week they have collected 7,500 signed ballots, which represents 45% of those they need. “It’s been seven days out of the seventeen we have. We’re carrying a figure that’s pretty good for the date we’re on. It’s not a big hit or rocket launch, but it’s a good figure and a good base. We’re within the percentages we have. to achieve the goal, but we can’t lower our guard.We can’t leave any signature at home and we need to urge partners that it’s time to sign up and take a step forward and not be dazzled by a figure that, despite being good, is not enough yet, “said Marc Duch, a spokesman for the motion.

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“Let’s get close to the goal, let’s finish the job,” said the groups responsible for starting the process (Cor Blaugrana, Manifesto Blaugrana, Compromissaris FCB, Dignitat Blaugrana, Seguiment FCB, La Resistència de Palau, # Noiestwitterbarça and El Senyor Ramon, with the support of the pre-candidates Víctor Font, Jordi Farré and Lluís Fernández Alà). “The figure of 7,500 signatures is obviously a round figure. It is very difficult since we have more than 130 premises that are giving us data continuously and it is very difficult for us to give an exact photo. The precise photo we have yesterday at the night is 7,497, but obviously no longer valid because we have received more signatures this morning.The final and final count will really only know the day we deliver the tickets, as surely until the last minute we enter from The next date on which we will have an official count will be September 14, “they said.

So, after opening a hundred signature collection points throughout the territory during these first days, the groups at the head of the process are optimistic and hope to collect the remaining ones in the last week. And it is that collecting 16,500 signatures of members in person is complex to achieve because, unlike previous attempts, this time the pandemic means that there is no party at the Camp Nou where many members are concentrated. “We have to understand that this motion is substantially different from the ones that have been made so far. There is no central and unique space, there are no party days either. There is only territorial implantation, social collaboration and everyone puts all you can on your part and therefore the information flows up and down, ”Duch emphasizes.

Proponents have also acknowledged that they do not yet have an official response from the club on the final date to be able to collect the data. From the platform they ask that the deadline is September 21, they understand that Saturdays are not working days, as the club considers it. “We are working with the stage on the 17th, for two reasons. Firstly, because this is what the club has told us and, secondly, because we are internally convinced that the club will not make any effort or help us in any way. of being understanding with the current legal framework. We are convinced that the correct date is the 21st, because there is a sentence that says so. It is a legal battle that takes place in parallel to the collection of signatures. ”

If they get these signatures, they will be able to organize a motion of censure in which two-thirds of the votes of the members would have to be in favor of a change of board to put an end to the presidency of Bartomeu. In the history of the club, none of the motions of censure have managed to oust the president, although in two cases the promoters did obtain the necessary signatures to vote: in 1998 against Josep Lluís Núñez and in 2008 against Joan The door.