Florentino Pérez announces that elections at Real Madrid will be held this Thursday

The president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, reappeared this Wednesday night after his controversial press conference and did so to explain a little more about the electoral process that he is going to call. “Tomorrow (Thursday) the electoral board will start the election procedures,” announced the president on La Sexta.

From the official call for elections, “ten days will begin to present the endorsement” and when the candidates who meet the requirements are proclaimed, there will be 15 days of electoral campaign to contrast the programs of the candidates. Real Madrid members have not had elections since July 6, 2006.

Following that, one of the possible candidates, businessman Enrique Riquelme, has sent a letter to Madrid asking for more time to dialogue and request a broader process. “I have received nothing,” said Pérez to defend that he will not delay or halt the call.

From his Tuesday appearance, he also highlighted that he denounced that Madrid, under his mandate, had “stolen” seven Leagues referring to the Negreira case. “I have won 7 Leagues and it could be 14 but the other seven have been stolen from me,” he stated. These statements have made Barça consider going to court. “They would do very well to do so if that is what they believe,” he advised Yuste and Laporta.

But then he toned down his words a bit. “Stealing? It’s a way of speaking,” he downplayed the literalness. “I found out about the Negreira case three years ago. That file was requested by the Tax Agency, not Real Madrid. And the first to appear in the case was Madrid. They say they did it to equalize with Madrid and they also say they make reports and those reports do not exist. The coaches have said so,” he recalled about the matter.

Pérez did insist on the formal complaint they are going to make before UEFA. “We are going to present a dossier to UEFA with 500 pages with everything that has happened in the twenty years they paid and also in the last three.”

The other reference he made about the great rival in the League was to boast about his achievements. “I have won more Champions in my years than Barcelona in their entire history,” he emphasized. Something that served him to proclaim his willingness to continue in office. “I really want to continue and win more European Cups,” he announced.

The president of Real Madrid tried to distance himself from the criticism for his sexist comments in the press conference. “The poor woman had been raising her hand and they didn’t give her the floor. Now everything is blown out of proportion. Is saying ‘that girl’ bad? The journalist wrote to us to say that it’s nothing,” he revealed. He also argued that he wondered if a female journalist from ABC liked football because “she is not a sports journalist.”

The rest of the interview was to reiterate the message of the campaign orchestrated by journalists against him, to defend his health and that of the club and to assure that he is not driven by economic motivations. “I have never earned a single euro with Madrid. That said, I guaranteed one hundred and forty-something million.”

Florentino Pérez has indeed found the culprit for Madrid’s blank season and it is neither a coach nor a player, but the Club World Cup. “It’s true that this year we haven’t done it as we wanted. The origin of everything is the Club World Cup, we didn’t do preseason, we have had 28 injuries and playing Wednesday and Sunday we haven’t been able to recover physically.”

Finally, the president denied that he will be the one to choose the next Madrid coach. “We have a general manager. Maybe I am the one who knows the least about coaches.” Although he highlighted that José Mourinho in his three years on the bench “raised competitiveness and that allowed us to win six Champions in ten years.”