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Gianni Infantino of Switzerland is the new FIFA president after winning a second-round vote here on Friday. Infantino got 115 of the 207 eligible votes to take a decisive majority ahead of Sheikh Salman of Bahrain.
Zurich: Gianni Infantino of Switzerland is the new FIFA president after winning a second-round vote here on Friday. Infantino got 115 of the 207 eligible votes to take a decisive majority ahead of Sheikh Salman of Bahrain.
Sheikh Salman got 88 votes after being the front-runner during the four-month campaign. Prince Ali of Jordan had four, and Jerome Champagne of France got zero. In the first round, Infantino surprising led with 88 votes. Sheikh Salman had 85 votes, Prince Ali 27, and Champagne seven.
Infantino, the 45-year-old general secretary of European governing body UEFA, is the second straight FIFA president from the Valais region in the Swiss Alps. The 45-year-old from Brig replaces the 79-year-old Blatter, who was born in neighboring Visp.
Earlier, FIFA approved major reforms at a congress on Friday, part of world football's effort to end the culture of corruption that has plagued its governing body for years. The measures were adopted by 179 members, while 22 voted against and six abstained at a congress in Zurich that will also elect a replacement to FIFA's disgraced president Sepp Blatter.
The reforms were developed since June by a committee led by Francois Carrard, a Swiss lawyer tasked with a similar cleanup effort at the International Olympic Committee more than a decade ago. Among the most crucial measures are changes in the role of FIFA's president and its executive committee.
The president's job has been altered to function like a corporate chairman of the board, providing strategic guidance but with less management authority. FIFA's executive committee, which had become an epicentre of graft, has been re-branded as a FIFA council, and will operate similar to a corporate board of directions.
FIFA's secretary general, previously number two to the president, will serve as world football's CEO. Those measures were designed to contain the authority of FIFA's top brass in a bid to prevent a repeat of the patronage and waste that prevailed during Blatter's 18-year term as president.
The president and council members will also be limited to three consecutive four-year terms. Several measures to improve financial transparency at the multi-billion dollar organisation were also approved. Revenues will be published, as will compensation for senior officials, while auditing will be more independent and more robust.
