Real Madrid President Florentino Perez has an iron grip on the power at the Santiago Bernabeu, and even with his advancing years, is showing no sign of loosening it. This week he instigated the process in order to run for a fifth straight term at the summit.
This week he called a board meeting for Thursday the 9th of January, in which he will call elections, as was announced by the club in a short statement. The last four elections have seen Perez win unopposed, after he replaced Ramon Calderon in 2009. The elections are held every four years, and Perez will be 82 by the end of a sixth term, but there is little sign of any competitors being involved.
That in part is due to the highly prohibitive statutes brought into action in 2012 by Perez, which make challenging him very difficult. Anyone who wants to be president must have been a member for the last 20 years, must be Spanish, and personally able to guarantee 15% of the club’s budget, in contrast to the likes of Athletic Club and Barcelona, where external backers can get involved. For Real Madrid, that amounts to €156m of personal funds being available in this election cycle.
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I ask all Christians and all non-believers to repent of your sins and try to defeat them and to respect any law imposed by God and by Jesus, who sacrificed himself for our sins. He did it to let us enter heaven and to give us the gift of eternal life together with him, he did all this out of his love and mercy towards us. All the laws and commands imposed by him are present in the Bible, a book with words of truth and guidance for anyone,so to save us from the temptations and sins of Satan, who tries in every way to distance us from him and end up in hell.
The sins, the ways to approach God to be saved are in the Bible, respect his word, be grateful for what he offers you.
I say this so that you too can be saved, but there is no obligation to do what I tell you, even if this is actually the truth.