FIFA has
declared five candidates eligible to stand in February's vote to replace Sepp
Blatter as president. He is to step down to make way for his successor at a
congress early next year.
Deutsche Welle, 12 Nov 2015
Soccer's
world governing body FIFA announced in a statement posted on its website on
Thursday that it had admitted the candidacies of five people who had officially
declared their interest in succeeding Blatter on February 26. They are: HRH
Prince Ali Al Hussein, Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Jerome Champagne,
Gianni Infantino, and Tokyo Sexwale.
Notable by
their absence are two names; UEFA President Michel Platini and Musa Hassan
Bility.
Platini was
not allowed to submit his name for the FIFA post officially, as he, like
Blatter, has been provisionally suspended by the international governing body
over corruption allegations. He could become a candidate once his 90-day ban
has expired. Infantino, UEFA's general secretary, has said that if and when
Platini does become a candidate, he will withdraw from the race.
FIFA's
ad-hoc Electoral Committee rejected the candidacy of Musa Bility, the president
of the Liberia Football Association, saying that this was "in view of the
content of the integrity check report relating to him." It declined to
comment publicly on the details of the reasoning.
The
statement also said its decisions on which candidates were eligible, could be
appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
FIFA's
Ethics Committee handed down the 90-day provisional bans on the current FIFA
and UEFA presidents over an alleged "disloyal payment" of 2 million Swiss francs from Blatter to Platini in 2011, which is the subject of an
investigation by Swiss prosecutors.
The vote to
elect a new FIFA president is scheduled for February 26.
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— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) November 12, 2015
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