The Swiss is about to finish a mandate that started in 2016
The ten associations of Conmebol support the current president
The ten associations that make up the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) gave this Tuesday their unanimous support to the FIFA president, Giani Infantinowho will seek re-election to the position he has held since February 2016 in March. This was announced in a statement by Conmebol, based in the Paraguayan city of Luque.
Infantino, visiting the South American country, where he attended the inauguration of the high-performance women’s football center of the Paraguayan Football Association (APF), met with the members of the Conmebol Council. “After a conversation about the current reality and the future scenarios of South American and world football, the Conmebol Member Associations gave their unanimous support to Infantino,” the note says.
At the Congress on March 16, 2023 in Kigali, the Swiss Infantino will run for re-election. The electoral calendar approved by the FIFA Council establishes that the candidacies for president must be presented up to four months before the congress. One month before the Electoral Congress, the definitive list of proposed and admitted candidates will be known.
Gianni Infantino (Brig, Switzerland, 1970) was elected president of the on February 26, 2016 in a vote with four candidates, after the scandal known as ‘FIFA-Gate’, which revealed cases of corruption between directors of the organization and led to the resignation of who had been its president since 1998, the Swiss Joseph Blatter, in June 2015.