The position of Josep Maria Bartomeu as president of Barcelona remains very shaky. A protest group called Més Que Una Moció, which means something like ‘more than one movement’, has now met the demands of a motion of no confidence against the current president. In the past period, 16,500 signatures have been collected, which will normally be presented at the Camp Nou on Thursday evening.

The name of the protest group is a reference to ‘Més que un club’, the motto of Barcelona. The initiators are very dissatisfied with the working method of the board of the Catalans led by Bartomeu. They are particularly outraged by the fact that Lionel Messi was about to leave the club recently, mainly because the Argentine playmaker criticized the policy of Bartomeu. It is now known that Messi will be linked to Barcelona for at least another year.

Bartomeu further close to Barcelona by motion of no confidence

A protest group is working hard to depose the Barcelona president.Read article

The motion of no confidence becomes valid only if fifteen percent of the socios of Barcelona, some 16,000 members, sign it. So the protest group succeeded in that mission. The next step is now that Barcelona will hold a referendum in the coming weeks in which two-thirds of all socios should speak out in favor of Bartomeu’s dismissal. Only when that is the case will a transitional board be formed. Only then are new presidential elections possible.

Joan Laporta, already president of Barcelona between 2003 and 2010, is one hundred percent behind the motion of no confidence towards Bartomeu. “And I would have done it another 20,000 times if I could. Bartomeu and his colleagues have done a lot of damage to Barcelona and they don’t deserve to continue their work for another minute. This is the last day, if you haven’t signed yet: today you’re still on time,” Laporta, who will participate in the presidential elections in March 2021, reports in the Spanish media. The expectation is that Barcelona will issue an official statement on Friday regarding the vote of no confidence against Bartomeu.