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FIFA: 20 questions on the governance reforms to be submitted to the Congress in Zurich on 26/02/2016

The FIFA Congress will convene in Zurich (SUI), on 26/02/2016, in order to decide on a set of reforms including: a president of FIFA that "shall aim to foster a positive image of FIFA and ensure that its missions are protected and advanced," a FIFA Executive Committee replaced by a FIFA Council of…
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FIFA: CAS to decide on the request to postpone the election no later than the morning of 25/02/2016

"The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has registered an appeal and request for urgent provisional measures filed by Prince Ali Al Hussein of Jordan against a decision taken by the FIFA Ad-hoc Electoral Committee dated 15/02/2016 in which it declined to incorporate the use of transparent voting…
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• Article # 63133
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FIFA: Prince Ali asks the Court of Arbitration for Sport to postpone the presidential elections

"We are seeking provisional measures before CAS to suspend the coming election on Friday 26/02/2016," announced Francis Szpiner and Renaud Semerdjian, the lawyers of Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, one of the five candidates for the FIFA presidency, on 23/02/2016. This request follows the rejection by…
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• Article # 63086
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France: four candidates were interviewed for the position of CEO of the LFP on 17/02/2016

Four candidates to be the next CEO of the LFP were interviewed on 17/02/2016 at the headquarters of the headhunter firm Spencer Stuart in Paris (FRA), sources confirmed to News Tank Football on 19/02/2016. These four candidates were Christophe Bouchet, former president of Olympique de Marseille…
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• Article # 62896
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Michel Platini, candidate for FIFA president on 29/07/2015, announced his withdrawal on 08/01/2016

Michel Platini, UEFA president, announced his candidacy for the presidency of FIFA on 29/07/2015, ahead of the elections scheduled on 26/02/2016. But the Frenchman, provisionally suspended on 08/10/2015, was formally suspended for eight years from any activity in football by the adjudicatory…
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• Category(ies): Legal
• Article # 63001
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Programmes, statements and the support of the five FIFA presidential candidates

"The Ad-hoc Electoral Committee officially declared five candidates eligible for election as FIFA president at the Extraordinary Congress of FIFA," stated the international federation, with 209 member federations, on 26/01/2016. On 26/01/2016, one month to the day before the Electoral Congress on…
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• Category(ies): Legal
• Article # 63003
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FIFA: two-thirds of voters necessary in the first round, simple majority of votes in the second

"For the election of the President, two-thirds of the votes of the Members present and eligible to vote are necessary in the first ballot. In the second and any other requisite ballot, a simple majority (more than 50%) of the valid votes cast is sufficient," states Article 27, Paragraph 3 of the…
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• Category(ies): Legal
• Article # 63005
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Election of the ninth president of FIFA, the successor to Joseph Blatter on 26/02/2016

Ali Bin Al Hussein, Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Jérôme Champagne, Gianni Infantino and Tokyo Sexwale, these are the five candidates seeking to replace Joseph Blatter for the presidency of FIFA, during the Extraordinary Electoral Congress held in Zurich (SUI) on Friday 26/02/2016. The winner…
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• Article # 63007
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Joseph Blatter, the eighth FIFA president (elected on 08/06/1998, suspended on 08/10/2015)

The FIFA presidential elections in Zurich (SUI), on 26/02/2016, are the first vote which will not feature Joseph Blatter as a candidate since 1998. Born on 10/03/1936, the Swiss was re-elected as FIFA president for four years (2015-2019), following the withdrawal of Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein…
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• Article # 63002
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FIFA: decisive hours for the reforms, subject to a vote of the Extraordinary Congress on 26/02/2016

The replacement of the FIFA Executive Committee by a FIFA Council of 37 members, including a president elected by the Congress and 36 members designated by the confederations, and the separation between the political and business management functions of FIFA, with strategy defined by the president…
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