The Generalitat finishes off Bartomeu: resigns as president of Barcelona

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• Josep Maria Bartomeu.Auge and the fall of a president

From "there are no reasons to resign" to the resignation en bloc of its entire board.

Yes, with it included.

This is assured by sources from the board of directors to EL MUNDO.

Nothing defines the character better than his fold.

Before acolytes and enemies.

What difference does it make.

This time, the contradiction of

it was final.

What perhaps the president of Barcelona did not expect is that after years devoted to extreme survival, the one who would end up finishing him off would be the Generalitat, with pending accounts to resolve due to the doubtful political balance of the leader, and implacable at the decisive moment.

In full state of alarm, without bars or restaurants in Catalonia and with a nightly confinement.

But the Government is sure that there are no "legal or health impediments" to hold a vote of no confidence to which 110,132 members would be summoned.

Also sure of not wanting to attend to the desperate help of a Bartomeu who, in reality, never wanted to submit to a referendum to judge his convulsive regime (January 2014 to October 2020).

What for the Barcelona leadership is a «sovereign plot» against them, although ERC and JxC rarely collaborate on something, for the government of the Generalitat it is simply the legal-health response, via the Territorial Civil Protection Plan of Catalunya (Procicat), at the request of a private institution.

Bartomeu, who attended the media on Monday in a legacy-scented appearance, thus hands over the club's government to a management commission, whose "main function", according to the organization's charter, will be to call for elections in the period of three months from when it is constituted.

The businessman

, whose great electoral card is that of

, is one of the great aspirants to win the presidential chair.

, despite having been working on her candidacy for some time, has not yet announced it.

Nor has he done it, and perhaps no longer does, who should have the approval of former President

.

820 million debt

Bartomeu's resistance came to an end on Tuesday, with several of his executives pushing to end the agony.

Five lines of a letter sent this Tuesday by the Government to the CEO of Barcelona,

, were

to put an end to a mandate that the president wanted to rush to clean up as much as possible the accounts of a club with a debt of 820 million euros.

In this letter, sent by representatives of the Interior and Health departments of the Generalitat, the Generalitat reiterated that nothing should prevent the holding of the vote of no confidence.

As long as, yes, the Barça club assumed the requirements proposed by Procicat and that Barcelona had known since last October 21.

This protocol involved 21 venues (13 in Catalonia, seven in the rest of Spain, and one in Andorra) host the vote.

Something for which Barcelona demanded 15 more days of term when being unable to organize the plan.

Although this entailed skipping its own statutes, which marked as the last day this Tuesday for the entity to call the referendum.

The promoters of the motion were already threatening complaints to the Tribunal Català de l'Esport.

The possibility of using the Camp Nou as the sole venue was never taken into account by the Generalitat, despite the fact that the Barça club sent it a new 21-page protocol last Sunday.

Six Vice Presidents Resigned

The Barcelona legal services were convinced that it would be easy to obtain a legal umbrella to claim those 15 days of margin in which Bartomeu had finished sweeping the house (the salary cut negotiations, or "adaptation", conclude next week, the next November 5).

For this, the club would have alleged the difficulty of obtaining permits from all the Autonomous Communities that had been involved in voting or the prohibition of social gatherings of more than six people during the state of alarm.

It will no longer be necessary.

Bartomeu leaves Barcelona after winning 13 titles with the first team and having endured countless crises.

Some of them still prosecuted like

.

It was the president who inherited the throne from his intimate

and who won an election thanks to the slogan of the trident and the triplet.

The one that allowed the club to be convicted of tax fraud in the

.

The second case file is still pending trial.

The one that had under his command five sports directors and five coaches.

The one who saw six vice presidents resign from him.

The one who squandered the 222 million euros from Neymar's escape and signed the three most expensive signings in the club's history (

,

and

).

The one in Rome and Liverpool.

The one from 2-8 in Lisbon.

The one who leaves the club with a debt of 820 million euros without having been able to execute his pharaonic Espai Barça.

Yes, also the one that prevented the departure of

, when he considered that his career as a Barça player deserved no other end than a burofax.

Bartomeu's resistance came to an end.

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