Mortada Mansour’s return to the presidency of the Zamalek club is “possible”

Former Zamalek club board member, Ahmed Suleiman, revealed that there is a possibility of more than 50% for the “frozen” chairman of the board of directors, Mortada Mansour, to run in the club’s elections that will take place later this year. Suleiman said in statements to “Echo of the Country” channel: “So far, there is nothing legally impeding Mortada Mansour from running, because there is no accusation evidence of financial irregularities during the term of his council by the Public Prosecution, which is investigating the financial cases attributed to the previous board of directors.” Because of which it was frozen.

On November 29, the Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports froze the board of directors of the Zamalek Club, in light of the results of the work of the Financial and Administrative Examination and Inspection Committee, which is formed by the decision of the Minister of Youth and Sports No. 434 of 2020, and referred the financial violations that it monitored to the Public Prosecution, and the suspension and exclusion of the Zamalek club board of directors and the director The executive and the financial director from managing the club’s affairs on a temporary basis until the investigations of the Public Prosecution are completed

Suleiman added, "Despite my conviction of what Mortada Mansour accomplished during the period in which he assumed the presidency of the club, I ask him not to run in the upcoming elections, as it is correct for him to legally candidacy and to give the opportunity to new faces to lead the club in the coming period." And he continued: "It is not reasonable in the last 30 A year to rotate the presidency of the club, Kamal Darwish, Mamdouh Abbas and Mortada Mansour, without others getting their chance, as if the club had no competencies except for these three.

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