GO BARÇA
STOPS THE VOTE OF NO TRUST
Regarding our decision of
withdrawing the vote of no trust against FC Barcelona directive board, which
was announced on September 30th, said decision announced on October
2nd in a press conference at the Col·legi de
Periodistes de Catalunya, we would like to make the following statement:
1. The reasons that motivated us to present the
vote of no trust still exist.
2. Experts
on law matters, whose opinion was consulted by GO Barça, mentioned the
following regarding the bylaw 58/2010 by the Generalitat de Catalunya:
· FC Barcelona had 3 years to
actualize the club’s statutes, so they can reflect the need of a 15% of
signatures to present a vote of no trust, yet they haven’t submitted the modification
until the time we presented the vote.
·
Therefore, the club’s statutes
expired in June 2013.
·
The club could choose to
apply the statutes that were valid when we submitted the vote, as long as there
was no member that demanded the opposite.
3. GO Barça submitted the vote
of no trust according to the club’s statutes, since we understood this would be
the last chance of doing such before the statutes were modified in the upcoming
Member’s General Assembly, so they reflected the 58/2010 by-law. According to
this, any vote of no trust in the future would need the signature of 15% of
valid members to be presented, not the 5% that was stated in previous
statutes.
4.
Once we started the
submitting process, several facts occurred:
·
The Secretary of Catalan Sport,
Mr. Tibau, says at tv3 that
Barça had the choice of making valid the demand for 5% of signatures
·
The President of the
Catalan Sports Court, Sr. Xiol, says at RAC1 that
Barça could apply the 5% rule
·
GO Barça decides not to
start asking petitions to be signed and pursuing the 5%, as we won’t want to
enter in a court case with FC Barcelona.
·
In any case, we regret that
the 58/2010 by-law establish such a limit for member’s rights of demanding
accountability to the club’s board and, in particular, make highly impossible
to present a vote of no trust.
5. When we got the petitions
printed from the club and the realized the club would demand for the 15% of
signatures, we thought trough our options, which were two:
·
To pursue the 5% of
signatures and then take the club into court.
·
To withdraw the vote of no
trust, acknowledging we won’t get to the 15% of members to sign, since we have
no financial support or media presence.
6. Since we didn’t want to
enter into a court case with the club, and the 15% goal was impossible to
achieve in only 14 days, we made a responsible decision of withdrawing the vote
of no trust.
7. We would like to apologize for
our mistakes in this process. The promoters of this vote of no trust are not
interested nor seeking ‘free publicity’, as they have also not intended to
diminish the importance of the limited means FC Barcelona members have to
participate in club’s matters.
8.
We sincerely thank all of
you who have send us messages and emails supporting our cause, which arrived
from different parts of the world. We strongly encourage the members that agree
with the reasons we
exposed to present the vote of no trust, to join us in the quest of a more
representative club. We kindly ask for your support for the actions we will
held in the future.
Visca el
Barça i Visca Catalunya
Contactar con GO Barça
Mail: gobarca1899@gmail.com
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