Real Madrid has called elections in the club this Tuesday after the meeting this afternoon in which the president of the white team, Florentino Pérez, has communicated to the Board of Directors his decision to start the process of elections for president and Board of Directors for the next four years. The current mandate of Florentino and his Board ended this April, after no other candidacy presented itself in the last electoral call. Now the situation is the same, if no candidate is presented Florentino will be president again on January 19.
The Electoral Board now has two days to formalize the call and the deadline for the presentation of new candidacies will be between January 9 and 18, 10 days according to the club’s Statutes. “The president, having heard the Board of Directors held today, and in accordance with article 38 section b of the Social Statutes of Real Madrid CF, has requested the Electoral Board to begin the procedure for calling elections for the President and Board of Directors,” says the statement issued by the white club.
Once the deadline for submitting candidatures has expired, if there is more than one candidate for the presidency, the date for holding the elections will be set within the following 15 days. If only Florentino runs, he would become president again, as has happened in the last four electoral calls—in 2009, 2013, and 2021—.
If he is re-elected again, this would be Florentino’s seventh term at Real Madrid in his two spells at the helm of the club. The first time he came to office was in 2000. He was re-elected in 2004, but two years later he left office. In 2009 he ran again and would win as he was the only candidate who ran. Since then he has been the president of Madrid.
