The institutional vice-president and spokesperson for Barça, Elena Fort, will replace the lawyer Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas in the Junts per Catalunya group in the Parliament. The board of the Barcelona entity, responsible for Espai Barça, is next on the list of training in the Barcelona constituency and has already been an advisor to the group led by Albert Batet in this legislature.
Furthermore, Fort has already been a deputy in the Catalan Chamber with the post-convergent organization. In the last legislature, also when she had already started, in May 2019, she joined the JxCat group after several resignations. Despite taking a step forward with the candidacy of Joan Laporta in the Barcelona Football Club in 2021, Fort, a lawyer by profession, has always remained linked to Carles Puigdemont’s party and had also been on the election list in 2019 municipal councils of Barcelona headed by former councilor Quim Forn, in a symbolic position.
In fact, as a result of the tensions that existed in the JxCat group a few weeks ago due to the situation with Cristina Casol, now a non-attached deputy, Fort broke a spear in favor of the direction of post-convergent training in the institution, with Batet and Mònica Sales at the head. Without explicitly citing Casol, she assured that her complaint “does a lot of harm to women who have suffered, are suffering and will suffer gender-based harassment” by lying and pointing out people unfairly. He also claimed to have “witnessed” the “authoritarian and rude” actions of the Ilerda parliamentarian “towards colleagues and workers of the parliamentary group.”
At the Barça club, Fort, specialized in urban law, had been part of the board of directors in Laporta’s first stage, between 2008 and 2010, after the resignation of several directors, when he formed a trusted team and in this second stage They have gone hand in hand again. At Junts they value the fact that she has already been a deputy and she knows the parliamentary dynamics and that she has given impetus to women’s sports from the board of directors of FC Barcelona.
Alonso-Cuevillas announced yesterday that he is resigning his seat in the Parliament of Catalonia to dedicate himself to his professional activity as a lawyer, in his office. In the moments after 1-O, the former deputy had advised Puigdemont and other members of the executive headed by the former president and then became a deputy of Congress, first, for just over a year, and of the Catalan Chamber, later, occupying at the beginning of the legislature, for less than a month, the second secretary of the Board that Aurora Madaula now holds.