Gianni Infantino was elected new president of FIFA today's extraordinary election congress of Fifa.
Infantino received 115 votes in the second round of elections in Zurich today that it was enough to win. His main rival, Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa received 88 votes.
In the first round, Federer was again before Sheikh Salman with a difference of only 3 votes - 88:85.
In his Infantino told delegates that the need to restore the authority of FIFA. The mandate of the new president is up in 2019.
Prince Ali in the runoff vote 4 votes, while Jerome Champagne did not receive a single vote. This means that in practice the voices of Prince Ali and Champagne from the first round were redirected to Infantino and brought him victory over Sheikh Salman.
Right out loud had 207 members of FIFA, which had to choose between five candidates - General Secretary of UEFA, Gianni Infantino, the Prince of Jordan Ali Bin Al-Hussein, Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, Jerome Champagne and Tokyo Seksuel.
Subsequently, the number fell to four once during his speech before choosing Seksuel announced that waives their application.
In the first round the most votes garnered Infantino with 88, followed by Sheikh Salman with 85. But that was not enough to Infantino to be named the new president as a victory in the first round he took 2/3 of votes . Third in the voting was the Prince of Jordan Ali Bin Al-Hussein, 27, and Frenchman Jerome Champagne received 7 votes. In the second round of the election winner must have 50 percent and one vote.
Gianni Infantino is known to the public as the official face during the numerous ceremonies of UEFA. As Secretary-General, however, he had a key role in strengthening serious financial power plant, through which UEFA catch up with its main competitor in the face of FIFA.
In his election program 45 years Infantino presented ambitious plans for a substantial increase of funds for the football federations. He said he plans to invest nearly $ 1 billion for the development of football in four years. In addition, he also proposed an increase in the number of participants in the World Cup from 32 to 40.
With today's selection Gianni Infantino put a final end to the long rule of former President Sepp Blatter. Federer led the post more than 17 years. He was first elected head of the headquarters of June 8, 1998, succeeding legend João Havelange. It was then re-elected four consecutive times - 2002, 2007, 2011 and 2015
Namely 2015, however, it proved fatal for Blatter, who was forced to retire early. He was suspended from football because of the raging corruption scandal between him and UEFA president Michel Platini. On 25 September the Swiss prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit against Blatter for the illegal transfer of 1.8 million. CHF Platini in 2011. These funds were given to the Frenchman for his work in the period January 1999 - June 2002
The consequences for both were - initially disposal of football for eight years, later reduced to 6. This was the reason Platini not to participate in elections for a new president of FIFA.
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