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Blatter re-elected as FIFA president

Xinhua, May 30, 2015 Adjust font size:

Sepp Blatter was re-elected for the fifth time as the FIFA president here on Friday.

The 79-year-old, who has been FIFA chief since 1998, won a total of 133 votes against 73 from Prince Ali of Jordan, his only rival.

Without winning a two-thirds majority, the vote went a second round but Prince Ali withdrew from the race to give Blatter the victory.

Blatter has been under fire after a total of 14 people were indicted, with seven senior football officials arrested in dawn raids at a Zurich hotel just two days before the election.

Blatter resisted calls to step down and vowed to stay in the position to "fix things".

A bomb threat was made hours before the election and the room was searched and proceedings resumed at 12:30 BST. Endi