We invite you to follow our live coverage. Congress in Zurich began at 9:30 am, and the same vote probably around noon.
10.30 – Congress probably will last until late afternoon. Election of the president of FIFA is only the penultimate of the 12 items on the agenda and the procedure is quite complex. The voting itself may take several hours
10.00 – “There is no doubt that the recent FIFA faced with many challenges and found herself in the spotlight for the wrong reasons. Together we are going to solve this problem and restore the central role football, not what around him “ – greeted the guests Hayatou
09.30 – The meeting time to start
09.00 – Acting FIFA president Issa Hayatou called on activists of world football to adopt the reform package at Friday’s meeting in Zurich. The Cameroonian, who shall discharge his duties in place of the suspended by the Ethics Committee of FIFA boss Joseph Blatter, called the next few days some of the most important in the history of world football. He called on activists to approve the program of reforms to restore credibility in the world of sport, including the introduction of term limits for top officials and disclosure of earnings.
08.30 – The Congress came one of the favorites Gianni Infantino
08.00 – The Swissotel, where the Congress arriving guests.
07.30 – The voices of delegates fighting: Secretary General of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Swiss Gianni Infantino President of the Asian Confederation of Football, Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa of Bahrain, Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein businessman and politician Tokyo Sexwale of South Africa and former deputy secretary general of FIFA Frenchman Jerome Champagne.
Representatives of more than 200 national federations will cast their votes in alphabetical order. Judging by the declarations, which fell during the election campaign, the battle for the most important office in the football will fight Infantino and Sheikh Salman , and the other candidates are unlikely to be reckoned with.
The voting rules
If in the first round none of the five candidates wins 2/3 of the votes, the second round will be carried out, in which the decisive may be a simple majority (over 50 percent). If no one reaches, will be held the third round, but no candidate who previously received the lowest number of votes. If again no one reaches the required support, the procedure will be repeated until the remaining two contenders.
The scandal FIFA
Immediately after the selection of the winner will have to once again officially confirmed that he agreed to take the post of President of FIFA. When he does, with the completion of the Congress will take office.
The superior world federation will not be as influential as when he held her Blatter. The result of the corruption scandal that has cost the Swiss job, planned reforms aimed at reducing the power of the president and the Executive Committee and carry out more frequent and more thorough checks. Participants in Friday’s congress also have to decide on the introduction or rejection of these amendments to the articles of association FIFA.
Aneta Hołówek, Bartosz Orlowski PolskieRadio.pl, PAP, IAR
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