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Re-election, can this organization move forward if blatter were to maintain its helm? welcome to another crisp blue sky here in switzerland, george. the events have been so jaw dropping that its prot probably not overstepping the case to say this could be the most important day in history of the worlds most popular sport. sepp blatter, president of fifa since 1998, hes been there a lot longer than that stands for re-election for a fifth term in charge of the organization and the tot 209 national...

Members of six confederations. together, there will be 209 votes. the winner needs two-thirds. thats 140 votes. you are looking at the different confederations. eufa is one of those federations. in there, they have three associations. thats 53 votes. the ahead of eufa speaking on thursday said they will back prince ali at least most of the members are expected to. so that could potentially be right there 53 votes for prince ali. zero at the moment for sepp blatter. now, the asian football confed...

Blatter. if his backing holds amidst this crisis, sepp blatter could get at least a 00 secrets right there in the ballot box, making it likely he will rain for a fifth term. cnn, london. the story really breaks down the numbers. now lets get some context and perspective on this story with kir radnich. good day to you. so you saw or heard evas report just a moment ago. what do you think about these numbers between sepp blatter and prince ali? >> well, i think her assessment with the numbers wer...

Thing for prince ali is that the asian federation, his own confederation is officially backing sepp blatter. thats a very serious problem for him. my reading of the situation, i am told the delegates last late night, was that if prince ali got enough votes to pull even a second round of voting, he would have done very well and would have given sepp blatter a bloo y nose at least. >> so in your general opinion, this corruption scandal, does it weigh heavily on sepp blatter going into this electio...