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No Candidate Elected New FIFA President in First Voting Round

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The football governing body's new president will be elected in a second voting round. 26.02.2016, Sputnik International

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No Candidate Elected New FIFA President in First Voting Round

15:18 GMT 26.02.2016 (Updated: 19:49 GMT 31.10.2022)

The Extraordinary FIFA Congress is currently underway in Zurich, with one of its aims being the election of the new FIFA president - Sputnik International

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The football governing body's new president will be elected in a second voting round.

ZURICH (Sputnik) — No candidate managed to score the required two-thirds majority in the first FIFA presidential voting round on Friday.

Jordan's Prince Ali bin Hussein received 27 votes, France's Jerome Champagne received 7 votes, while Bahrain's Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa and Swiss-Italian Gianni Infantino received 85 and 88 votes, respectively.

The football governing body's new president will be elected in a second voting round.