current chief Josep Maria Bartomeu

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Unhappy socios can trigger a censure motion (essentially a vote of no confidence) by gaining 15,000 signatures from fellow socios who are against the board.Previous president Joan Laporta faced a censure motion himself back in 2008 and survived, while a similar initiative against Rosell was scrapped late last year after the two socios leading the campaign for the Go Barca group complained that it was impossible for them to collect 15,000 signatures.Another attempt looks unlikely now and if there is no censure motion, elections will go ahead as planned straight after next season - probably in early July 2016.WHO WILL RUN FOR OFFICE?At the moment there are three potential candidates: current chief Josep Maria Bartomeu, former president Joan Laporta and Agusti Benedito, who lost out to Sandro Rosell in the 2010 elections.Bartomeu has already said he will run once the current mandate is up, while Benedito has also confirmed he will be fifa coins in the race and Laporta has hinted on more than one occasion that he is prepared to run again for the position he occupied between 2003 and 2010.However, more candidates could yet join the race.WHO IS AGUSTI BENEDITO?Agusti Benedito is a 50-year-old Catalan businessman who has long been linked to FC Barcelona.A co-founder of the Elefant Blau censure motion movement against former president Josep Lluis Nunez in 1997, Benedito worked under Joan Laporta at Barca from 2003 but handed in his resignation in 2009 due to differences with the former club chief and his board.