FC Barcelona will resume this afternoon from 3:00 p.m. the assembly that was suspended last Sunday due to lack of time just when the acceptance or not of a loan of up to 1,500 million euros to finance Espai Barça that would be granted by the investment bank Goldman Sachs was going to vote.
The assembly will begin with a speech by Laporta and will go on to vote. It remains to be seen how many of the 4,537 delegates turn out. The quorum can be jeopardized if the partners are not encouraged. On Thursday, only seven people attended an information session of the board to the partners to explain the project.
This little expectation among the members who have to vote contrasts with the social and media debate that has been generated around the assembly.
The nearly 600 members who were present at the Palau Blaugrana at the time the assembly was suspended felt delegitimized to make such an important decision, representing only 0.4% of the social mass. And also the meeting had been extended exaggeratedly and was going to overlap with the game against Valencia that was played at 9 pm at the Camp Nou. The assembly began at 3.30 pm and before the revolt of the delegates who threatened to vote no, the president decided to postpone the assembly. The next day Laporta confirmed that if the vote goes ahead, a referendum would be proposed to see if the project is pushed forward, which from the board is defined as the most important in the modern history of Barça.
But this is not the only issue that will be dealt with in the second part of the assembly, which is essential for the Laporta board to carry out its government projects.
The statutory reform must also be voted, that at the popular request they will vote separately on each of the eight articles that are intended to be touched.
You also have to vote the minority sale of the company Barça Studios and the reform of the syndicate organization system with the abolition of the World Confederation of Peñas, that he has already advised that he will vote against this point.
Depending on the people who go to the tent enabled to hold the assembly, which by the way, only graphic media will be able to access (radio journalists, websites and written press must follow the act from the auditorium) the meeting may have problems to carry out their proposals.