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Sí al futur demands to the Board of Directors of FC Barcelona that the modification of the financing of the Espai Barça pass through a referendum instead of being limited to an Extraordinary Assembly of Committing Partners, announced for the beginning of next year.
Everything the media has said these days about the proposal of Sí al futur:
Víctor Font demana un nou referèndum sobre l’Espai Barça | TV3
Sí al futur demana un nou referèndum per a l’Espai Barça | Betevé
Víctor Font reclama un nuevo referéndum sobre el Espai Barça | Sport
Víctor Font pide un nuevo referendo sobre el 'Espai Barça' | Mundo Deportivo
Víctor Font vol un nou referèndum per ratificar l’Espai Barça | L'Esportiu
Víctor Font pide un nuevo referéndum para validar el Espai Barça | Marca
Víctor Font pide un nuevo referéndum para el Espai Barça | As
Víctor Font pide un referéndum sobre la financiación del Espai Barça | Europa Press
Víctor Font pide un nuevo referéndum para validar el Espai Barça | La Vanguardia
Víctor Font pide un nuevo referéndum sobre la financiación del Espai Barça | El Periódico
Sí al futur demana votar de nou l’Espai Barça | ARA
Víctor Font pide un nuevo referéndum sobre la financiación del Espai Barça | El País
Víctor Font demana un nou referèndum per a l’Espai Barça | El Nacional
Víctor Font demana a Bartomeu un nou referèndum per a l’Espai Barça | El Món
Víctor Font pide un referéndum para la financiación del Espai Barça | Culémania
It also asks the Board of Directors for information and transparency on the economic situation and the Club’s debt before voting
Sí al futur (Yes to the future, in Catalan) calls on the Board of Directors of FC Barcelona to consider that the modification of the financing of the Espai Barça be decided by referendum instead of being voted on an Extraordinary Delegates Assembly, scheduled for the beginning of the next year. The project led by Víctor Font thinks that a decision of this magnitude must be taken by the entire social mass of Barcelona members because, if accepted, it would imply assuming a completely different financing model from the one approved in the 2014 referendum: the project, which initially was to cost 600 million, would have been funded through 200 million from the generation of own resources, a further 200 from credit and some 200 donated by the company that would give name to the new Camp Nou. Currently, the project is thought to have a cost of 685 million euros and, according to different information, it is expected to be financed with 700 million from Goldman Sachs with an operating contract on part of the benefits for 25 years.
Before voting for the financing of Espai Barça, Sí al futur also asks for an exercise of absolute transparency on the debt and the economic situation of the Club. Víctor Font considers that the Board must clarify the information that indicates that Barça has 1,000 million euros of financial debt with an increase in financial liabilities of 53% in the last year. In this regard, Sí al futur would like to recall that the Board of Directors presided by Josep Maria Bartomeu undertook by public commitment, on more than one occasion, not to start the works of Espai Barça if the Club's debt was not below 220 million euros. Another aspect on which Sí al futur asks for clarity is the situation of the naming rights of the new Camp Nou in the financing of Espai Barça.
In addition to the in-person voting like that of 2014, Sí al futur considers that the referendum to decide on the financing of Espai Barça must be electronic too, so as to facilitate the participation of all the members of the entity. It should be noted that the law does not prevent electronic consultations of this type to the social mass and, in addition, the Club already has the software to carry it out because Sí al futur and the company Scytl delivered it free of charge to FC Barcelona last summer.
Sí al futur considers it essential that, before holding the referendum, the Board of Directors of the Club open a period of information and debate on the financing project to be put to the vote.
Sí al futur also urges the Board of Directors to explain if the change from the local architects firm Joan Pascual and Ramon Ausió Arquitectos to the Japanese multinational Nikken Sekkei with b720 firm Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos at the end of 2017 meant modifications to the Espai Barça project with respect to the one that won the contest in early 2016.
1.- The project has shifted from a cost of 600 million euros to 685 at this time and no one can discard that it may end up becoming more expensive.
2.- The change of budget has forced to substantially modify the financing model that the social mass had approved in the 2014 referendum: 200 million from own resources, 200 million from credit and 200 million with the sale of the name of the stadium.
3.- Despite the lack of transparency, different information points to the fact that the Club's debt is much higher than the 220 million euros that the current Board of Directors itself had set as the maximum debt limit in order to start the works of Espai Barça.
4.- The winning project of the competition for the reform of Camp Nou has changed architects without any explanation from the Club. The firm Joan Pascual and Ramon Ausió Arquitectes has been replaced by the b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, one of the firms that participated in the contest but was not chosen. It isn’t known if this substitution has led to substantial modifications to the project compared to the one that won the contest in 2016.
5.- The sale of the naming rights of Espai Barça should contribute to the project a figure that will probably be higher than the 200 million euros budgeted, but at this point no agreement has been closed.
Sí al futur proposal in favor of the introduction of electronic voting at FC Barcelona won the Sunday's vote at the Entity's Assembly of Delegates, but it remained at 58 supports in order to obtain the necessary statutory reform to be a reality.
All the media has said about the introduction of electronic voting in Barça:
Víctor Font: "Hem de crear les condicions perquè Xavi pugui ser l'entrenador del Barça" | VilaWeb
Víctor Font: “Hi ha una manca de lideratge del club en la gestió del vestidor” | CCMA
Víctor Font entrega al Barça gairebé 5.000 firmes pel vot electrònic | CCMA
El Barça incorpora la iniciativa del vot electrònic a l'ordre del dia de l'assamblea de socis | ARA
Víctor Font aconsegueix les firmes i portarà el vot electrònic a l’assemblea del Barça | El Nacional
Víctor Font porta l’ús del vot electrònic a l’assemblea | L'Esportiu
Víctor Font tanca la campanya amb 5.030 signatures de suport | L'Esportiu
Víctor Font recull les signatures necessàries per implantar el vot electrònic al Barça | El Món
Víctor Font fa balanç de la recollida de signatures pel vot electrònic | Betevé
Víctor Font necessitarà el vistiplau del 67% dels compromissaris per aprovar el vot electrònic | SER Catalunya
Víctor Font: "Los compromisarios están ante un momento histórico" | Sport
5.000 socios piden llevar el voto electrónico a la Asamblea | Sport
El Barça es un club libre y democrático | Sport
El Barça incluye la cuestión del voto electrónico en el orden del día de la Asamblea | Sport
¿Por qué el Barça ha tenido esta actitud con el voto electrónico? | Sport
Víctor Font gana el e-voto sin bajar del autocar | Mundo Deportivo
Víctor Font entrega las firmas: “Hemos logrado el reto” | Mundo Deportivo
El Barça incluye en la Asamblea la votación por el voto electrónico | Mundo Deportivo
Font presentará 5000 firmas para implementar el voto electrónico en el club | Mundo Deportivo
Victor Font: “Hay falta de liderazgo del presidente del Barça” | As
El Barça incluye la propuesta del voto electrónico de Víctor Font en la Asamblea | Cope
Font denuncia la “falta de liderazgo” de Bartomeu respecto al vestuario | El Periódico
La Asamblea de Compromisarios del Barça debatirá sobre el voto electrónico | El Periódico
La asamblea del Barça se pronunciará sobre el voto electrónico | La Vanguardia
El precandidato Víctor Font entrega las firmas para llevar el voto electrónico a la Asamblea del Barça | Europa Press
Víctor Font pide a Bartomeu explicar en la Asamblea el voto electrónico | Europa Press
Unos 5.000 socios firman para implementar el voto electrónico en el Barça | El País
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On January 31st 2019, the Auditori Axa from Barcelona held the first public presentation of Sí al futur. If you were unable to attend the event or just want to relive it:
Below you will find all the information on the presentation of Sí al futur published by the media: