BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Joan Laporta resigned as Barcelona president as planned on Monday in order to be eligible for re-election on March 15.
Laporta and some board members resigned so he could run again. The resignation was formally approved at a regular board meeting.
The current board of directors, including new club president Rafael Juste, will serve until the end of their term on June 30th.
Five voting stations will be available to club members in March, one in each of Catalonia’s four departments (Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona) and another in the Principality of Andorra.
This will be the 15th presidential election in the club’s history since the first one was held in 1953.
Laporta, who was team president from 2003 to 2010 and from 2021, will face opposition parties in the next election.
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