Zurich (dpa) – Shortly after the unconditional adherence to the election date for the FIFA President and the new opportunity for Michel Platini threatens the football world already the next quake.
The FIFA Ethics Committee will, thanks to new skills more related ongoing process and could thus provide the next unveiling wave.
Despite the never-ending scandals FIFA remains but in their schedule with the extraordinary congress and the presidential election on 26 February 2016. This, the Executive Committee of the World Federation decided behind closed doors at its emergency meeting.
taught the emergency meeting without the suspended Joseph Blatter and Platini FIFA administration reforms on the way and decided to a much-needed transparency drive. The ethics guardians may now publish “more information” about their investigations, so far was a confidentiality clause
The panel had last Blatter and Platini locked -. Despite its current 90-day suspension of the UEFA boss may now still hoping for a leap into the highest office of football. After the application deadline on 26 October, although will follow an integrity check of the candidates, FIFA announced on Tuesday. This will not performed as long as a candidate is banned.
Another statement to reporters was the FIFA administration guilty. The ExCo members to DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach disappeared after the four-hour meeting without comment mostly in darkened limousines through the parking garage. Also interim chief Issa Hayatou, there was in the absence Blatters no comment on the decisions which also provide for more transparency for ethics guardians. So now is likely the tremors start at some functionaries – date information on ongoing investigations were forbidden
Platini’s suspension runs from the beginning of January and can be extended by 45 days.. The FIFA Ethics Committee aims as in the case Blatter at a fast final judgment. To be able to still compete, now takes the opposition of French against his suspension be successful or he be acquitted of allegations of corruption.
On Monday, he had complained that his name “dragged through the mud” will. He is the receipt of a payment of two million Swiss francs by Blatter in 2011 for services that were then returned nine years accused. For this agreement, there is, according to Platini’s no written contract, but only a “gentleman’s agreement”.
Meanwhile, the Ethics Committee will inform on Wednesday afternoon about “pending”. Only when final judgments has hitherto published a justification. Both chief examiner Cornel Borbely as well as Hans-Joachim Eckert chairman of the adjudicatory chamber had campaigned vehemently for the right to information. They “welcomed” the new right to information.
Now, could in theory also reports about possible investigations example, against the German Football Association in the wake of allegations of slush funds at the World Cup bid of 2006. The DFB rejects these accusations. The end of May had the ethics committee also confirmed that even during proceedings against Franz Beckenbauer. He had, like all members of the FIFA Executive Committee, who had been involved in the scandal-ridden World Cup award at Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022 in December 2010, to testify before the investigators of the Commission.
The ExCo also welcomed also the package of measures of the newly created Reform Committee. Here, the Panel proposes chaired by the Swiss Judge François Carrard an age limit for ExCo members of 74 years, also is a FIFA president should be a maximum of twelve years in office. This would, however relevant the earliest ever in twelve years after the next election.
In addition, the “individual compensations” of the President, the ExCo members, the Secretary-General and the Commission Chairman to be published. The Executive Committee is to be downgraded to a kind of supervisory role, and bear the name “FIFA Council”.
Six days before the application deadline, the exciting phase starts now finally in candidate races. So far, only three candidates have officially presented the necessary Supporter votes of five FIFA member associations: Platini, who at the FIFA election losing against Blatter Jordanian Prince Ali bin al-Hussein last and ex-pro David Nakhid from Trinidad and Tobago. This step is also the President of the Asian confederation (AFC), Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, expected.
He was “of a growing number of leading football officials, FIFA members and public figures life was “encouraged to apply, wrote the 49-year-old from Bahrain to a BBC report, the members of the AFC Executive Committee. In it, he stressed that he was not yet a candidate. He had initially supported the candidature of Mr Platini, as well as the support from Europe could now be obtained when the UEFA President can not run.
The possible candidacy al-Khalifa was clearly criticized by human rights organizations. “Since the peaceful anti-government protests of 2011 to have responded with brutal and lethal force by the authorities, the al-Khalifa family supervises a campaign of torture and mass arrests that has decimated Bahraini democracy application”, Nicolas McGeehan said of Human Rights Watch.
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