Luciano Buonfiglio is the new president of Coni. The Board of Directors elected him for the four-year period 2025-2028 with 47 preferences out of 81. For the other candidate Luca Pancalli the votes were 34.

Bonfiglio – 74 years old, former canoeist and for years treasurer of the Canoe Federation – succeeds Giovanni Malagò . «This is not the time for words, we expect facts. We will elect a council because there is a big change, vote with your brain first

than with the heart", said the new president immediately after the election.

«Congratulations to Luciano Buonfiglio», declared the Minister of Sport Andrea Abodi in a message, in which he thanked Malagò «for his intense and fruitful twelve years at the helm of a winning CONI» .

The minister wished Buonfiglio "immediate and full collaboration with the aim of improving efficiency and usefulness, not only of the institution, but of the entire Italian sports system for the benefit of competitiveness and the social usefulness of sport in all its forms."

(Online Union)

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