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The day dawned with rain in Barcelona.

A cloudy rain that, in part, seemed a metaphor for the mud in which Barça has been submerged in recent times.

From 9:00 in the morning, members could approach the Camp Nou, one of the six electoral venues set up by the club, to cast their vote to elect the new president of the entity.

A fight between three candidates:

Joan Laporta

,

Víctor Font

and

Toni Freixa

.

Leo Messi

, who assured that he will not decide his future until the end of this season, decided to get wet and exercise his right to participate as a member of the entity.

He did it around noon, accompanied by his eldest son,

Thiago

.

The other captains,

Sergio Busquets

,

Gerard Piqué

and

Sergi Roberto

, as well as other players from the Barça first team, such as

Jordi Alba

and

Riqui Puig,

also went to the polls

.

Even former Barcelona players like

Bojan Krkic

.

Artur Mas

, former president of the Generalitat, and

Sandro Rosell

, former top Barça leader, also made an appearance to exercise their right to vote in elections that Laporta defined as "the most important in the history of the club."

The former president also took advantage of the weather to do some self-promotion.

"The day started with rain, but when I went out to vote, the sun came out," said who is known to be the top favorite to regain a position he already held between 2003 and 2010. It was the first of the three candidates to vote.

"The night is long"

"Why tomorrow?

I can talk to him tonight, the night is long, "Laporta launched when asked if the first thing he would do tomorrow, in case of winning, would be to call

Jorge Messi

to arrange the future of the captain.

Freixa, the second to cast his vote, pulled a football simile.

“The public didn't count on us, but when we started to play and score goals, they did.

Now there is a corner in the last minute and, if we put it, we win, "he said.

Font, for his part, agreed with Laporta by giving great importance to the elections.

“We are a unique club and we will continue to be so for many years.

It is a great moment to turn the page and support a new project, "he said.

The pandemic transformed from top to bottom what was usually a tremendously busy day.

"What an illusion to be able to re-enter the stadium," commented a member as she headed towards a Camp Nou that has long been orphaned by the public in its stands.

On this occasion, only members could access the Barcelona facilities to exercise their right to vote.

Joan Laporta, with Enric Masip and Valero Rivera, after voting at the Camp Nou.

"There were almost more people controlling than people voting," explained Rafel, partner number 5,916, with more than 50 years of seniority, after leaving the premises.

Perhaps they are the strangest I have ever seen.

I also find the stadium a shame.

They have it quite abandoned, "he added without forgetting to send a metaphorical blow to a

Josep Maria Bartomeu

who is going through a tremendously complicated moment because of 'Barçagate'.

«In general, everything went very well.

Voting, at the end of the day, is always a bummer ”, confessed

Àngels

, member number 4,395 of a club that he joined in 1951. The organization, as he explained, allowed the voting to be very fast.

"It didn't take me five minutes," he commented.

In his opinion, the worst of everything that has happened in recent times is how it has affected the vision of Barça.

"The image of the club has been stained," he lamented.

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