FIFA ended elections - sweep .. Infantino president of the International Federation

FIFA ended elections - Win sweep .. Infantino president of the International Federation

It provides live coverage and direct the international football federation elections to elect a new president

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During the first round, the Swiss Gianni Infantino came, Secretary-General of the European Union (UEFA), in first place with 88 votes.

Followed by Bahrain's Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, President of the AFC, a difference of only three voices, while Jordan's Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein Third came far behind, winning 27 votes.

Frenchman Jerome Champagne with a solution in the last place with only seven voices.

The regulations require that the winner gets the presidency on a two-thirds vote by FIFA's unions, which have the right to vote of (207), and this rebate is delayed for a second round.

Not a retreat and will be a second phase of voting in the event of one of the candidates to half of the votes (104 voice over) it automatically win the post of president.

A victory by one of the candidates have as many votes less than (104 votes) it will remove less recipients of the percentage of the vote and make a third stage of voting.

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The new mandate

He announced Issa Hayatou, Acting President of the International Football Federation, that a president who will be elected on Friday during the Extraordinary General Assembly eleventh FIFA will take over the job until 2019 only, and not until 2020.

According to what explained Hayatou, it will complete the winning candidate-according to the state Oaih- initiated by Joseph Blatter, who was elected late last May and resigned on the second of June, after the prosecution on corruption charges.

Before the start

He stressed Issa Hayatou, Acting President of the International Football Federation, at the opening of the Extraordinary General Assembly, that the latter "will mark the beginning of a significant era in the history of FIFA," which "undertakes decisively that down a new path of change."

He stressed, "No one denies that we had in the past year to pass several challenges affecting the foundations of our organization. FIFA was at the center of attention for negative reasons, but we were able to change that. Together we intend to put the football in the heart of all our efforts."

He described Hayatou reforms Stkhaddaha General Assembly for a vote, on the management and transparency of the Union, as a "progressive and important" and wished success to the five candidates vying to succeed Joseph Blatter in office.

He added, "It's time to elect a person who directs us in this difficult period. Success of the candidates, and all the best in the future for all, at the time we make a new future."

President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach highlighted that the General Assembly of the Viva "will decide the future of world football," and called on its unions to ratify the reforms in order to "turn the page", as did the organization that is headed.

The Bach at the opening of the General Assembly held in Zurich: "We know that the most important in football is the goal. Today Tantbon new president, Storteuron your strategy to play, I hope to enroll in the next Mbartm goals to win world football."

He said the German official said on Friday, "It will be an extraordinary day," in front of FIFA in which "a great opportunity to turn the page" through the ratification of the reforms on the way his administration, and he has to "submit a new response with respect to questions about his credibility and good management."