Joan Laporta will return to the command of Barcelona after winning the presidential election

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Joan Laporta he won, in a convincing way, the elections for the presidency of Barcelona. Closed the official scrutiny, which was already the club’s chief executive between 2003 and 2010 added a total of 30 thousand 184 votes, 54.28 percent, by 16 thousand 679 votes of Victor Font (1 29.99 percent) and 4,769 media per Toni Freixa (8.58 percent).

Turnout, with an electoral roll of 110,635 voting members, was the second highest in history, with a total of 55,611 voters, just behind the 2010 election, which was won by Sandro Rosell and in which a total of 57 thousand 88 members voted. Although on that occasion the electoral census of the azulgrana club was of 118 thousand 655 members against the 110 thousand 635 of that year.

Laporta thus achieved his second electoral victory, after 18 years of the first and improving the data of that occasion, when he added a total of 27 thousand 138 votes, which meant 52.57 percent of the total.

From the canvas to victory, since he officially presented his candidacy on 30 November, growth in the consideration of favorite has been a constant around the Barça club. Font, who worked his assault on the presidential office for more than six years and presented a very elaborate program, of course, serious and conclusive, ended up yielding to the image between carefree, euphoric and nostalgic of Laporta.

Nostalgic because his project focused on the memory of his previous stage. The one in which Real Madrid did not win any Champions, which began with Ronaldinho as a standard at one time, 2003, very similar to the current and ended in 2010 with Guardiola’s team on stage. It was the differentiating factor on which the campaign of a Laporta was sustained who greeted his triumph with euphoria alongside his collaborators after sharing a few brief moments with Font i Freixa, who came to congratulate him. .

Laporta was already known, he suspected, a favorite from the first hour of the morning, which was denoted in his joy throughout the day, which contrasted with the seriousness of a Víctor Font who as the weeks went by understanding that his project was not going to be able to cope with the charisma of the winner and throughout Sunday, walking around the Camp Nou, he barely maintained that smiling face.

Barça, socially sunk, needed a change. And what the Barça member voted for was a real revolution. He did it in 2003, with a magnificent result, and so it is understood that he has done it again in 2021. Against depression, joy; against fatalism, optimism.

Without having to present names during the campaign, this Sunday a source of his own candidacy acknowledged to ESPN Esports that Jordi Cruyff is expected soon in Barcelona to join the club as Sports Director. Laporta has to turn the sock around after an especially happy Sunday in every way.

He started seeing a winner in the morning, continued to witness how the draw in the Madrid derby relaunched his team in the dream of winning the League and ended, in the evening, euphorically celebrating his victory at the polls.

‘No surrender’ was the proclamation with which Joan Laporta said goodbye to losing the 2015 elections to Josep Maria Bartomeu. He did not give up, he warned that he would return … And he did. Through the big door.

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