FIFA
FIFA Congress: Four questions, four answers
The crisis-ridden football world governing body FIFA is on Friday at an extraordinary Congress in Zurich, the course for the future. Matched is about the new FIFA boss, and on the Reform of the Association.
How will the new FIFA boss elected?
207 of the 209 FIFA national associations are entitled to vote. Kuwait and Indonesia are currently due to government influence on the football suspended. Every Association, no matter how mitgliederstark, has a voice. Come from Africa 54 from Europe, 53 from Asia, 44, from North and Central America 35, from South America ten, and from Oceania, eleven votes. The election is by secret ballot. The FIFA members give their ballots one by one in alphabetical order.
Already in the first ballot to be elected, a candidate a two-thirds majority, 138 votes. In the possible further rounds of voting is enough already then the simple majority of 104 votes. After each round, if the candidate with the fewest votes. So it can have a maximum of five rounds of voting. Probably not, because one or the other candidate to withdraw if he is in one of the first passages realized that he was hopeless.
Which of the five candidates have the best chances of FIFA President, and thus successor to Joseph Blatters?
Favorite is Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa from Bahrain. The confederations of Asia and Africa languages a Wahlempfehlung for the 50-Year-old, regardless of in the room standing charge, the Sheikh was during the crackdown of the Arab spring of 2011 in Bahrain for human rights Violations responsible. The only serious competitor is likely to UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino. The 45-Year-old knows most of the Europeans – among others the German football Association – behind and also has Wahlzusagen from Central and South America. The other three candidates, the Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein (40 years), the South African Tokyo Sexwale (63), and Frenchman Jerome Champagne (57) are the underdogs in the race for the FIFA Chefposten.
The candidates: Champagne, Prince Ali and Sheikh Salman, Infantino, Sexwale (v. l. top, clockwise)
The delegates vote not only for the FIFA President but also on a Reform of the football world. What is planned?
The Fifa Executive Committee is to take place 24 in the future, 36 members, including at least six women. The Committee will according to the plans of the reform Commission in a kind of Supervisory Board converted and given a new name: FIFA-Council. This Board is just about the major sport governing guidelines of the world to decide. The day to day operations, including the multi-billion dollar financial transactions, the future the experts in the FIFA General Secretariat. The Plan provides that the now much more powerful Secretary General by the FIFA President proposed and the Council is confirmed. The term of office of managers should be to a maximum of twelve years to be limited. Independent commissions should be the integrity of the key management staff check and whose work monitor.
The barrier to Reform is high. Three-quarters of FIFA’s members must agree.
New personnel, new structure, so that everything is well at FIFA?
For FIFA, it is primarily a matter of not harmed by this shot to get back to the daily routine to be able to focus. However, this can only be achieved if the planned reforms are not only approved, but also decided to be implemented. Great skepticism remains, since there are very many construction sites and the number of those FIFA officials who not only can tackle, but also unencumbered and are manageable.