Jaume Giró, a strong man in the financial field of Joan Laporta’s candidacy who won the election for the presidency of Barcelona and who proposed to be economic vice-president, will not be part of Barça’s board of directors after resigning during the meeting which they had on Saturday, the members of the candidacy advanced an information from the newspaper La Vanguardia and which was confirmed to ESPN Deportes by sources of the team that won the electoral contest.
Giró’s departure did not surprise Laporta’s tough core, with which he remained, ESPN Deportes found out, some discrepancies in recent days due to the decision of the president-elect that it was Ferran Reverter, signed as general manager, who had the maximum responsibility in economic decisions, a circumstance that did not please the financier, dissatisfied with the fact that he was in the background when he was the one who led the entire economic facet during the election campaign.
Giró, through his candidacy team, announced late Saturday his decision “not to be part of the board of directors led by Joan Laporta for professional reasons that will force him to stay in London for many days, which he fully dedicates to the vice president of of the entity is unfeasible ”.
According to the same statement, Laporta “had known Giró’s decision for several days and, by mutual agreement, decided to communicate it to the rest of the candidacy members in a meeting on Saturday”.
In a friendly tone, he realizes that the economist “fully trusts President Laporta, with whom he has had a good friendship since 2005, for a term that will begin next week and continue to collaborate and provide his external and unconnected support. . contractual or economic agreement with Barcelona “.
UNEXPECTED CRISIS
A key figure during the election campaign, Giró, who was deputy director of Caixabanc and the La Caixa Foundation, defended the bond issue as a highlight for Barcelona’s critical economic recovery and from last Sunday’s victory at the polls. face. from
negotiation with two financial institutions to obtain the guarantee of 125 million euros, necessary for the Laporta board of directors to be able to access the position.
The approval, however, is scheduled to be signed this Sunday and presented to LaLiga on Monday morning. Once he is satisfied and transferred to the board chaired by Carles Tusquets, the inauguration can take place, which was originally scheduled for Tuesday could be postponed until Wednesday, the last working day of the club’s statute, which gives ten days to take office on election day.
Giró was understood as one of the strong people in the new board of directors, in the position of economic vice president, but displaced from the first vice presidency that Rafael Yuste (responsible for sports) will hold, a scenario that Giró himself did not pleasant, so dissatisfied with the distribution of posts, in which Elena Fort will also have a specific share as head of the social area, as in the case of the rare direct intervention in the day, which Laporta understands either in the hands of executives.