The suspension is particularly important for Platini, which makes it impossible to apply for the presidency of FIFA. The elections are scheduled for February 26.
The head of UEFA immediately decided to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for. Sport (CAS) in Lausanne.
Elections FIFA without Platini
– After exhausting all internal procedures in FIFA, Michel Platini decided to take the matter to the Court of Arbitration for. Sports. It is an independent court, which will decide regardless of the context of the election and the current pressure on FIFA – announced Platini’s spokesman, Jean-Christophe Alquier.
FIFA is in crisis from the middle of this year, when before Congress in Zurich, Swiss police – in collaboration with the Americans – arrested seven prominent activists and put them on corruption charges. A few days later for another term chosen in charge of the organization since 1998. Blatter. When pressed, however, the media, opinion leaders and other activists announced that he would resign in February 2016 year.
Initially Blatter officially associated with the investigation of corruption in FIFA, but on September 25 the prosecutor’s office in Switzerland announced that it has initiated criminal proceedings against him. That day searched the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, in the office of her boss.
Blatter is suspected, among others, to sign the 2005 FIFA disadvantageous contract with the Caribbean Football Union. He is accused of also other cases of actions contrary to the interests of organizations, including those related to television and marketing rights. The Swiss also had to pass illegally two million Swiss francs (approx. 7.7 million zł) Platini in the period between January 1999 and June 2002.
Currently, the list of candidates for the February election are: Ali Al Hussein, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Jerome Champagne, Gianni Infantino and Tokyo Sexwale.
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