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Prince Ali bin al-Hussein got 27 votes and Jérome Champagne just 7. Tokyo Sexwale had earlier withdrawn from the contest. In round two, candidates need just a clear majority (more than 50%) to win. That’s 104 votes to win.
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Members of the Gulf Center for Human Rights are protesting against Sheikh Salman, accusing him of involvement in the alleged torture of Bahrain footballers – an accusation he has denied. A couple of other protest “movements” have also broken out – but I’m not terribly sure what their message is exactly. This is a former…
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“The Swiss bank is suspected of having directly, and not via its Belgian subsidiary, approached Belgian clients to convince them to set up structures aimed at evading taxes,” they said in a statement. UBS External linksaid in an email statement sent to swissinfo.ch that: “We take note of this next step in the proceedings in…
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If there is no clear winner, we proceed to further voting rounds. A winner will be declared if they achieve a simple majority (more than 50% of votes). If this does not happen, the candidate with the lowest number of votes will drop out until we are left with two still standing. Of course, we…
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Sexwale is the rank outsider in the race and has been criticised for running the quietest campaign so far. He seems to be making up for it with some stand-up charisma, joking about the executives who had been arrested in Zurich during the last two FIFA meetings. “I am a soldier and I will die…
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The point is to try to convince delegates that he is not just a man of Europe, but that he can also appeal to the rest of the world. Infantino threw his hat into the ring at the last minute in October when the presidency bid of his UEFA boss, Michel Platini, took a turn…
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“I am not announcing a programme full of smoke and mirrors,” he said at the Hallenstadion, landing a dig against Gianni Infantino’s plan to increase the World Cup tournament to 40 teams. Champagne promises to close the divide between continents and make FIFA more democratic. He wants development funding to be directed to the 100…
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Both supporters and critics have gathered in small numbers outside the Hallenstadion in Zurich today to make their voices heard. Sheikh Salman presents himself to delegates as “one of you” who has come to “speak from the heart” and not from a script. He says that reforms carried out in Asia since 2013 are proof…
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Now to decide who is going to lead FIFA’s reforms through the implementation stage. Whoever gets elected will continue disgraced Sepp Blatter’s term of office until it was due to expire in 2019. Here are the five candidates: Asian Football Confederation President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa. UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino – a Swiss-Italian…
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Yesterday TI Switzerland called on Swiss lawmakers to beef up laws to make sporting organisations headquartered here behave themselves. Switzerland plays host to the majority of global sporting HQs (around 60) and does quite well out of this arrangement – pulling in more than CHF1 billion every year from these entities. TI Switzerland thinks this…
