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What we know:
Reto Baumgartner is the new president of FC Basel
Bernhard Burgener announces in the video what to expect. In other words, Reto Baumgartner was elected president with a large majority. The Aargau native fastened his shoelaces for FCB himself in the 1990s. His best moment was his promotion to the NLA in 1994. Baumgartner has been on the club’s board of directors since 2009. Now the members have elected him as the new club president. Baumgartner succeeds Burgener. His share of the vote had steadily declined over the past three years and in 2019 was just 65 percent. That year, Burgener, as well as CEO Roland Heri and Peter von Büren, did not even stand for election. Officially due to the unnecessary personal union of the club president and the board. Unofficially, however, probably also to avoid his own vote.
2,589 members voted in the written general assembly
Votes were counted over the weekend and until noon on Monday. That’s significantly more than in a physical general meeting, in 2019 it was 1,515, for example. Overall, however, the FCB has more than 8,000 members. More than two-thirds of them chose not to vote. Maybe also because the writing was a bit too complex.
Dominik Donzé and Benno Kaiser remain on the board
Besides Reto Baumgartner, only two other members will serve on the board in the future. The former Benno Kaiser and Dominik Donzé. Burgener says in the video: “All the other candidates did not achieve an absolute majority.” This means that not a single member of the five Yystoo ticket makes it to the board. Silvia Schenker, Jo Vergeat, Patrick Fassbind, Tobias Adler and Daniel Schreier are as empty as the spontaneous candidates Dieter Bürge, Jean-Claude D. Gerber, Peter Hablützel, Felix Sutter and Peter Walker.
The new FCB statutes are rejected
Unlike the election of the club’s board, the members of the FCB follow the recommendation of the Yystoo movement. The revised and modernized statutes under the leadership of Roland Heri were rejected. Burgener says, “Many members would like to see this topic covered in a physical general meeting. Here the FCB must again on the books. According to Burgener, the revised bylaws should be re-voted at the next general meeting, likely in early summer 2021, and then adopted.
Reto Baumgartner is also a delegate of the association in the AG
Since the new bylaws were rejected and apparently so was Patrick Fassbind’s motion, the new president Reto Baumgartner is also the delegate. Represents the interests of the association on the AG’s board of directors. Burgener says he is eager to work with Reto Baumgartner, whom he knows well from years together on the association’s board of directors.
Burgener and Heri are not recommended for elections
The members recommend to the delegate in the AG not to vote for Bernhard Burgener as president and Roland Heri as board of directors. Only Massimo Ceccaroni will be re-elected. With this vote, FCB members withdraw their trust in owner Burgener and CEO Heri. He will be re-elected to the Board of Directors without the vote of the delegate. But the members show that they are dissatisfied with the current leadership.
You get a warning: Bernhard Burgener should not be elected Chairman of the Board of Directors by the delegate to the AG. That equates to a vote of no confidence.
© Georgios Kefalas / KEYSTONE
What we don’t know:
Exact numbers
The FCB announced on Monday that there are no exact figures except for the number of voting members. It remains open, among other things, with what percentage of directors were elected or not and what percentage of the members opposed the new statutes. The club wants to communicate this information on Tuesday.
What do winners and losers say about the results?
The new club president, Reto Baumgartner, will only comment on his election on Tuesday. There was also no response from Yystoo when we went to press.
And Yystoo?
After all, it is a bit strange. With the statutes and the recommendation for the election of the delegate against Burgener and Heri, the FCB members follow the recommendations of the Yystoo movement. However, none of the five Yystoo candidates will be elected to the board. Here the fundamental distrust of the members is clear.
None of the five-ticket Yystoo made it to the club board.
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