«I got up and it was raining.
I went to vote and the sun came out.
You will have lost things along the way, but it does not set you back.
Joan Laporta
, at 58 years old and more than a decade after leaving the Barça armchair (2003-2010) in search of a political dream that was not, will once again preside over Barcelona.
With 89.74% of the votes counted in an election in which the pandemic did not prevent a massive turnout, Laporta fulfilled the forecasts.
With 24,771 votes (57.62%) he erased
Toni Freixa
(4,070 votes, 9.47%) and with him the traditional power of
Nuñismo
, and left Víctor Font far away (13,603 votes, 31.64%), engulfed by the neatness of his
power point
organization charts
and condemned by the
psychophonic
support
of
Xavi Hernández
from Qatar.
Who did appear on the scene was
Leo Messi
, even if it was simply exercising his right to vote.
It was the fist time I made it.
But it was more than a gesture.
Less than four months after the end of his contract, not just any candidate was working for him.
The partners of this Barcelona, dragged by the directive and executive leadership of
Josep Maria Bartomeu
to sporting, economic, institutional and moral misery, with Bartogate as the decrepit end of the party, have offered the order to rescue Laporta.
Without hesitation.
Perhaps remembering that under his presidency the first football team experienced the best years in its history (12 titles, including two Champions League and four Leagues).
From Barça de
Rijkaard
and
Ronaldinho he
passed to that of
Guardiola
and
Messi
.
And also leaving aside the voter those excesses at the end of the journey that preceded the long rule of
Bartorosellism
(2010-2020).
Laporta was the most efficient candidate in an eternal, low-profile campaign.
"Zero errors, I close corrections."
A mantra that he tried to follow to the letter.
But the elections had already been won.
He did it the same day he unfolded a canvas next to the Bernabéu that covered his opponents, convinced the skeptics and reaffirmed his supporters.
But now he will have to show that, beyond his staging in the debates, he can also be the best president in the worst possible scenario.
To prevail at the polls, he knew how to follow the campaign plotted by his advisers to the letter, based on careful containment and optimism in the messages.
Everything was said with a smile.
Laporta spent four months reciting the same phrases over and over again.
Without ever losing the thread or the composure.
"His ability to internalize, memorize and recite speeches is incredible," admits one of his team members.
This helped him to move away from extreme positions and move closer to the center, suppress Font's technocracy and even win votes from a more
eighties
cut
and that in other times would have repudiated him.
Laporta never charged against his predecessors.
Neither did he firewood from the judicial scandals, nor did he take pleasure in the Bartomeu scandals, on Tuesday in the dungeon, on Sunday in front of the ballot box at the Camp Nou.
Convinced pro-independence and good friend of former
president
Carles Puigdemont
, if Laporta spoke about politics it was only to say that his Barça "is everyone's."
The political imaginary in the campaign scenography was null, without flags other than Barça and without public presence of the sovereignist associations.
If he spoke about the sports area, it was to give confidence to those who already are, not to those who could reach.
He promised to convince Messi not to flee in June.
Even if it's "with a roast."
Laporta only had to be a bit more explicit economically, announcing a double bond issue that should allow the club to pay its payroll in May.
With the ghost of the vulture funds always on the stage.
The voter perhaps remembered that Laporta, in 2003, already allowed the resurrection and subsequent construction of the best Barcelona in history.
This was a club that between
Joan Gaspart
and
Enric Reyna
had also left on the brink of bankruptcy.
Although there are differences.
Before the bonds of the environment were broken and new years of underground struggle for power began, Laporta had activated that virtuous circle with
Ferran Soriano
-of whom Víctor Font is heir- or Sandro Rosell -whose postulates are collected by Toni Freixa- .
Laporta's main travel companions in this new stage will be
Mateu Alemany
, who was general director of Valencia and former president of Mallorca, or
Jaume Giró
, former general director of the La Caixa Banking Foundation and who will bear the financial responsibility of the entity. .
Maria Elena Fort
, the only woman on her board, will be another of the great references of her mandate.
She was a director in the last Laporta mandate and a JxCat deputy in the last legislature.
"
Ho tornarem a fer
" ["We will do it again"].
Laporta was inspired by the words pronounced by
Jordi Cuixart
, president of Òmnium, in the trial of the
procés
.
He will have time to prove it until July 1, 2026, the date on which the mandate that opens an era will expire.
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