In Ligathe White Home isn’t altering its thoughts. The emblematic president of Real Madrid Florentino Pérez, though challenged on the polls for the primary time since 2009 by entrepreneur Enrique Riquelme, was re-elected on the night time of Sunday to Monday till 2030 for an eighth time period.
The meager suspense ended shortly earlier than 1 a.m., when Pérez, 79, congratulated himself on having gained “on all of the electoral tables” and achieved “the second greatest end in historical past”, even earlier than the official publication of the outcomes.
A season with out a main title
His rival Enrique Riquelme, president of the power group COX, had simply conceded his defeat just a few seconds earlier, after the publication of a number of polls putting Pérez properly within the lead, with between 60 and 70% of the votes of the “socios” (supporters-shareholders in Spain), known as to the polls for the primary time in twenty years.
These early elections had been known as by Pérez himself throughout a press convention on the finish of a second consecutive season with out a main title, whereas he had been re-elected with out opposition for the fourth time in January 2025.
The Madrid president, in workplace since 2009 after a primary time period between 2000 and 2006, confirmed in his speech that the primary robust choice of his eighth time period could be the return of Portuguese coach José Mourinho13 years after his first stint on the Merengue bench.
Membership capital quickly to open?
This victory, though anticipated, provides Florentino Pérez the legitimacy he was on the lookout for to proceed his “galactic” coverage on the head of the membership, regardless of quite a few criticisms for his sporting administration over the past three seasons. He introduced this week the instant arrival of two gamers within the occasion of a victory: French defender Ibrahima Konaté and Dutch full-back Denzel Dumfries, and likewise promised that he would make an XXL supply of at the least “150 million euros” for a brand new star participant.
The primary impression of this huge success on the polls ought to, nevertheless, be institutional, by permitting the Spanish billionaire to hold out his introduced mission of opening the membership’s capital to a minority shareholder, which his rival considers as “privatization”. Riquelme, unknown to most of the people till just a few weeks in the past, thanked the supporters who voted for him for having expressed their opposition to what he considers to be a “sale” of the membership, which Florentino Pérez categorically denies.
