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MONDAY, AUGUST 08, 2022
Bid to oust Barca chief gathers pace as fallout from Messi saga continues

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Reuters
08 September, 2020, 07:45 pm
Last modified: 08 September, 2020, 07:44 pm

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Bid to oust Barca chief gathers pace as fallout from Messi saga continues

If the campaign reaches its target and the vote is held, two-thirds of the club’s 150,000 members would have to vote against Bartomeu to trigger an imminent election.

Reuters
08 September, 2020, 07:45 pm
Last modified: 08 September, 2020, 07:44 pm
FILE PHOTO: Football - FC Barcelona unveil Neto - Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain - July 9, 2019 Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu during the press conference. Reuters
FILE PHOTO: Football - FC Barcelona unveil Neto - Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain - July 9, 2019 Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu during the press conference. Reuters

With Lionel Messi's aborted bid to leave Barcelona still raw, club president Josep Maria Bartomeu may be counting his days after a campaign group announced they were racking up signatures in a bid to force a vote of no-confidence in him.

'Mes que una mocio' (More than a motion), the group supported by candidates for next year's presidential election, said they had reached 7,500 club member signatures of the required 16,520 by Sept. 17 to trigger a vote of no confidence in Bartomeu.

If the campaign reaches its target and the vote is held, two-thirds of the club's 150,000 members would have to vote against Bartomeu to trigger an imminent election.

Bartomeu, who cannot stand again as he has already served two terms, has called elections for March 2021, three months ahead of schedule, in the wake of the team's humiliating 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League in August.

The motion of censure was filed by presidential candidate Jordi Farre on Aug. 26, the day after captain and all-time high scorer Messi sent the club an official notice saying that he wished to leave.

The Argentinian then said on Friday that he would stay for this season as he did not want to fight a legal battle with Barca over the validity of a clause in his last contract which allowed him to depart for free. He trained with Barca on Monday.

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Josep Maria Bartomeu / FC Barcelona

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