Frederico Varandas was re-elected this Saturday as president of Sporting. The leader will manage the current national champion for another term, this one for the triennium 2022-2025.
Varandas, from List A, won by a large margin, with 85.6%. Nuno Sousa, from List C, came in second place in this election with 1,335 votes, 7.3%. Ricardo Oliveira, from List B, ended up in last place with 415 votes, corresponding to 2.95%. In these elections, 14,795 members voted, far from the 22,510 registered in 2018.
It will be the second term of Frederico Varandas in the direction of Sporting. The current president was elected in 2018, succeeding Bruno de Carvalho. During three years of leadership, Varandas has a national champion title, two League Cups and a Portuguese Cup.
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00h01: Frederico Varandas has already spoken after his victory in this election. Sporting’s president said that the members voted for stability, unlike what happened during the last 40 years, in which there was ‘sports self-destruction’.
23h45: The results are announced. Frederico Varandas is re-elected president of Sporting. 12,523 members voted for List A, which corresponds to 85.6%. In second place was Nuno Sousa, from List C, with 1,335 votes, 7.3%. Ricardo Oliveira finished in last place with 415 votes, corresponding to 2.95%.
23h43: The chairman of the Board of the General Assembly of Sporting starts by congratulating the way in which they were elected.
23h41: Rogério Alves is already speaking at the Artur Agostinho Auditorium.
23h35: Rogério Alves, destituting chairman of the Board of the General Assembly of Sporting, will be on his way to the press room to communicate the results of this election.
23h28: After the victory against Arouca, Rúben Amorim was asked about the elections. The lions coach talked about the consensus in the three lists about its continuity, about the ego that comes from it and about its importance in the club.
23h19: After the match in Alvalade, with Sporting’s victory over Arouca, will now be the communication of the results of this electoral act. The announcement will be made from the conference room at Estádio de Alvalade.
21h02: Ballot boxes close with 12,272 members to vote at the João Rocha Pavilion.
20h01: Queues to vote are closed. Only those who were already in line will be able to vote this rest of the night.
19h39: Half an hour is left for the queues to close to exercise the right to vote.
19h00: One hour after the polls closed, the number of members who voted reached 10,800, a large number, but still far from the 22,510 registered in 2018.
18h43: New update: 9,750 members have already voted in Sporting’s elections, according to Sporting TV.
16h53: The Alvalade club announced that 7,000 members exercised their right to vote until 4:00 pm.
14h16: Sporting announces that, until 1:45 pm, 4,900 members had voted in the elections for the club’s governing bodies.
14h03: On election day on the other side of the Second Circular, Benfica condemned what it calls “colossal debt forgiveness” to Sportingdue to the repurchase of the VMOC’s, and publicly called for a “Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry dedicated to this topic”.
13h35: Sporting has just informed that, by 1 pm, more than 4,400 members had voted in these elections.
13h14: After Nuno Sousa and Frederico Varandas, it was Ricardo Oliveira’s turn to cast his vote. To journalists, the leader of List B defended that he has at his disposal “the best team” and “the immediate solution for Sporting”. In addition, he assured that the winner of the elections will have his “support”.
12h55: Frederico Varandas, president of Sporting and leader of the A List, has also voted. Speaking to journalists, he responded to Nuno Sousa’s accusations and reinforced his criticism of Pinto da Costa.shooting: “If you want to change the word, I can change ‘bandit’ to ‘active corrupter'”
12h11: Nuno Sousa, from List C, was the first of the candidates to cast their vote, in the João Rocha Pavilion. To journalists, he was “proud” of the campaign carried out over the last few months and pointed the finger at Frederico Varandas for having done “the Olympic minimums” in dialogue with the media.
11h17: Nuno Sousa, leader of the C List, made use of social networks to denounce a series of “bad practices” detected in the elections for the presidency of Sporting.
10h53: Today is election day, but also game day, in Alvalade. Sporting welcomes Arouca knowing that he is prohibited from setting pace again if he intends to continue chasing the leader of the I Liga, FC Porto.
10h27: The voting process runs smoothly, in Alvalade, and there are no long lines in sight. To Sporting TV, the coordinator of the General Assembly, Alexandre Martins, said that this is “a remarkable day in the history of the club”.
09h45: Undecided how much to vote for? do not miss the Extensive Sports by the Minute guide for proposals from all candidates.
09h22: A few hundred supporters were already at the doors of the João Rocha Pavilion and wasted no time in casting their votes.
9:00 am: The polls have just opened in Alvalade. O Sports by the Minute will bring you everything you need to know about the elections for Sporting’s governing bodies.
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It is already this Saturday that the approximately 54 thousand Sporting members eligible to vote will deposit their preferences in the elections of the governing bodies for the next four years, for which a total of three candidates compete.
Frederico Varandas will seek to renew the current term, for which he was elected in 2018, when he succeeded Bruno de Carvalho. Already Ricardo Oliveira and Nuno Sousa, go to the suffrage in the hope of promoting changes, in Alvalade.
The polls open at 9:00 am (Mainland Portugal time), at the João Rocha Pavilion, in Lisbon, and run until 8:00 pm, that is, just half an hour before kick-off for the match between the 25th round of the I Liga, between the lions and the Arouca.
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