The Fifa is on February 26, 2016 choose despite the suspensions of incumbent Joseph Blatter and Uefa chief Michel Platini as planned a new president. The Executive Committee of the Football World Association confirmed the date for the free skating of a successor to Blatter at an emergency meeting in Zurich.
The election would be held in February as part of an extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich, where the participants will also vote on reforms for the association. Previously has been speculation about a shift in the election to the regular congress in May in Mexico City.
Despite its current lock candidacy to UEFA boss Platini is always not entirely ruled out. After the application deadline on 26 October, although will follow an integrity check of the candidate, said the Fifa with. This will however not performed if a candidate is banned. Platini’s suspension runs from the beginning of January and can be extended even to 45 days. The FIFA Ethics Committee aims as in the case Blatter to a quick, final judgment.
To be able to compete but, now takes the opposition Platini 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.
Ethics Committee must pass information
In addition, the ethics committee of the World Federation now the public the FIFA Executive Committee decided, must provide information about their investigations. Both chief examiner Cornel Borbely as well as Hans-Joachim Eckert chairman of the adjudicatory chamber had campaigned for a change in the confidentiality clause and the right to information.
So far, the members of the Ethics Committee were in accordance with Clause 36 of the Code of Ethics committed “on the acquired knowledge in their work, particularly on the facts, the content of examinations and consultations as well as the decision taken and private persons in accordance with data protection regulations to FIFA data remain silent. ” Only when final judgments could be a justification published.
Temporary tenure and age
The Fifa Reform Committee also proposed to limit the term of office of FIFA President to twelve years and introduce an age limit of 74 years. This emerges from a reform catalog. The currently suspended incumbent Joseph Blatter, who is stepping down on 26 February 2016, 79 years old and for 17 years Fifa president. The FIFA Executive Committee welcomed the measures, they should be adopted by further discussions at the next ExCo meeting held on 2 and 3 December.
The Committee also advocates a disclosure of compensation paid to all leading Fifa officials and advocates to curtail the existing powers of the FIFA Executive Committee. The Executive Committee should be also renamed in the course of reforms in Fifa Council because it just should not play a strategic role. The committee will no longer be allowed to decide on the establishment or use of funds from the Fund. The Secretary-General shall act as managing director of Fifa and report to the Council.
The led by former IOC director general Francois Carrard-reform committee also recommended a cultural change. Mistakes would have confessed and the responsibility to take effect. Fans and sponsors would in future only accept full transparency.
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