Laporta and Portabella, today for you and tomorrow for me, by Xavier Bosch

Waiting for Xavi, the Barça has announced the signing of a new executive. Jordi Portabella will be the new director of the club’s sustainability area. The well-known politician, who made a career as a councilor in the City Council, made electoral tandem with Laporta just 10 years ago. The political career of the former president of Barça it wasn’t going as expected. Right after leaving the box in 2010, Jan founded the party Catalan Democracy that, to attend the elections to the Parliament, was integrated into the SI (Catalan Solidarity for Independence). The electoral result was not what was expected. They got four deputies. Few and with little ‘feeling’ between them. To the point that, a year later, Laporta left the subgroup of Solidarity and he remained, alone, as an unaffiliated deputy. That’s where Jordi’s offer came to him Portabella to rescue him. If he went with him in the candidacy of Unitat per Barcelona-ERC, they would make an electoral ticket. Portabella mayor, Laporta number 2.

Interviewed Portabella as a candidate in TV3, in May 2011. I asked him: “Half a year after the elections to the Parliament, where ERC and Laporta, Laporta and ERC They said everything to each other, isn’t it surprising that they’re going together now? ” His electoral result was bad. They barely achieved two councilor positions, for them two, on the night of the victory of Xavi Trias. Then that union was surprising. Not today anymore. Favor with favor it’s paid.