Font's power play: Calls for united front against Laporta in Barça presidential race
Víctor Font urges presidential pre-candidates to join forces against Joan Laporta ahead of March 15 elections, with Marc Ciria and Vilajoana already in talks.
Barcelona’s presidential election drama heats up as Víctor Font makes a bold call for all pre-candidates to unite against former president Joan Laporta in what he describes as a crucial battle for the club’s future model.
Font’s coalition building
The Nosaltres leader hasn’t been shy about his intentions, reaching out to fellow pre-candidates Marc Ciria and Xavier Vilajoana to discuss joining forces. Font believes the March 15 election should be treated as a referendum on the club’s direction, with most candidates sharing similar visions—except Laporta.
“All pre-candidates, except former president Laporta, are betting on the same club model,” Font explained, emphasizing their shared commitment to modernizing and professionalizing the institution.
According to Font, these preliminary conversations have revealed striking similarities in how the various candidates diagnose Barcelona’s problems:
- Most pre-candidates share a similar assessment of the club’s challenges
- Their proposed solutions are either very similar or complementary
- All except Laporta favor professional modernization of the club
High stakes election
The gravity of the situation isn’t lost on Font, who’s requested a whopping 50,000 ballots for his campaign. He’s made an impassioned plea to socios to turn out in force on election day, while expressing disappointment that postal voting won’t be an option.
Font’s urgency stems from his belief that Barcelona’s traditional model faces existential threats. “We must be aware that the club, as we have known it until today, is at risk,” he warned, painting these elections as absolutely crucial to the club’s future.
The coming weeks will reveal whether Font can pull off this ambitious coalition or if it’s just a load of old cobblers in the face of Laporta’s considerable popularity among the Barcelona faithful. Either way, the election campaign is properly motoring now, with all pre-candidates scrambling to secure enough support to become official candidates before the big vote in March.