The Real Madrid hhas called elections for the club's presidency. “The President, after hearing the Board of Directors held today, and in accordance with article 38 section b of the Real Madrid CF bylaws, has requested the Electoral Board to initiate the procedure for calling elections to President and Board of Directors”, explains the official statement from Real Madrid.
Florentino Pérez he had to call elections this year and he has done so today. The current club president is running for re-election and this time he may have rivals. Enrique Riquelme has already slipped that he would like to be president of Real Madrid and Vicente Boluda, who was already president of the white club, is thinking of presenting himself.
The last elections with voting in Real Madrid were in 2006, after the departure of Florentino Pérez, who had chaired the club between July 2000 and February 2006. Those elections were won Ramón Calderón, who resigned in January 2009. After that resignation, elections were called in which Florentino Pérez was the only one to stand and began a second term of office, until now and without further voting since in 2013 and 2017 no one else appeared as an alternative.