Perez re-elected Real Madrid president

MADRID, June 8– Florentino Perez was re-elected as Real Madrid president for the next four years after defeating his rival Enrique Riquelme in a vote held Sunday. The result was declared in the early hours of Monday after over 1,000 votes were challenged due to alleged irregularities in the postal voting. Perez, 79, returns for another four-year term to lead the club with 21,741 votes (65 percent) while Riquelme, a businessman from Alicante, won 11,814 votes (35 percent).