Rights group urges FIFA to block Infantino re-election bid over term limits

FairSquare says the FIFA president should not be able to run again under the world football organisation’s statutes. Human rights organisation FairSquare has urged FIFA to rule that Gianni Infantino is ineligible to seek another term as the football governing body’s president, arguing he ⁠has already served the maximum three terms permitted under the body’s statutes. FIFA presidents are limited to three terms in office. However, in 2022, Infantino successfully argued that his first spell in charge, which began when he was elected at an Extraordinary FIFA Congress ⁠in 2016 following Sepp Blatter’s resignation, should not count towards that limit because it completed an interrupted mandate. The vote is scheduled to take place in Morocco on March 18.

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Scoop News DeskMorocco · Published Monday, August 17, 2026 at 3:21 PM UTCUpdated Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 1:49 PM UTC

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The letter to the GACC was drafted with assistance from Miguel Maduro, the former head of FIFA’s independent Governance and Review Committee, who said the governing body could not disregard its own rules. “The principle of term limits was a fundamental aspect of the 2016 reform aimed at limiting power and the rule introduced is clear: no FIFA president can serve more than three terms of office,” Maduro said in a statement.

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