Toni Freixa, former member of the Board of Directors of Sandro Rosell and former spokesman for Barça, as well as candidate for the presidency in 2015, He announced this Tuesday in an interview in Mundo Deportivo that he also wants to be in the race to be president of Barça in 2021. “We are setting up a strong group with the people of 2015 and more people that we have been incorporating. If we can make a winning bid, we will present ourselves “, he acknowledges in his talk with journalist Joan Poquí.
Freixa, then, joins a career in which the only official pre-candidate with strength today is Víctor Font, leader of the platform Sí al Futur. Font bases his project on the arrival of Xavi to the Barça bench and the composition of a team that surrounds the legend of Terrassa.
In addition to Font, Joan Laporta, who sweeps the polls, could also be in the race to repeat his term. Laporta, who was president between 2003 and 2010, will decide in December.
The former president of the Catalan Federation, Jordi Roche, has not officially announced his candidacy either.. Roche has been working for more than a year in a strong candidacy, with many supporters and knows the ground it is on. It would be a powerful candidate. Nothing is known, meanwhile, of Emili Rousaud. After putting himself in the public sphere with the accusation of putting his hand in the box to Bartomeu's leadership, he left the club with the threat of returning as a candidate. But in recent months it has taken a back seat.
Jordi Farré and Lluís Fernández Alá have also shown their intention to run for the presidency and, at least, not stay in pre-candidates but to enter the final race. The number of support signatures needed to be president is not that difficult to come by. It is enough to get half the signatures of the delegates that are presented to the Assembly. In the last one, 4,478 delegates were summoned, so the valid signatures necessary to be proclaimed candidate would be 2,239. That number will not vary much. On the other hand, the guarantee is much more complicated: the winning board of directors must present it for a value of 15% of the current budget, to respond to the partners for possible mismanagement
On paper, only a continuation candidacy whose management has produced benefits above the amount to guarantee. And common sense invites us to think that only one application can be a continuity. This would be the case of the current board, since in the accumulated since 2010 they have generated benefits worth 15%. But if this year ends in losses, according to the law, they will have to endorse.