MOSCOW, December 11. /TASS/. Alexander Ceferin, the president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), intends to amend the rules of the European governing football body in order to keep his top executive seat until 2031, British tabloid Daily Mail reported on Monday.
"Ceferin and his allies have been working on the plans for months before formally proposing them at an ExCo [Executive Committee] meeting before last weekend’s European Championship draw, with a view to having them ratified at UEFA Congress next February," the British daily stated.
"The proposed amendments, which have yet to be made public, will be put to a vote of all 55 UEFA member countries at the Congress in Paris with a two-thirds majority of 28 required for them to be introduced," according to the British daily.
In April 2023, Ceferin was re-elected to another four-year term as UEFA president. The 56-year-old Slovenian president of the European governing football body ran unopposed in that election, which was held as part of the 47th Ordinary UEFA Congress in Lisbon, Portugal.
Ceferin was elected as UEFA’s 7th president in September 2016. He won the election at an extraordinary UEFA congress in Athens having received 42 votes, while his only rival, UEFA vice president Michael van Praag, secured 13 votes.
The Slovenian football official succeeded Frenchman Michel Platini, who resigned in early 2016 after he had been suspended from all football-related activities for four years. The new UEFA president was elected to a two-and-a-half-year term until the election at the 43rd Ordinary UEFA Congress.