The FIFA Ad-hoc Electoral Committee has received seven candidatures for the FIFA presidential election. Thus, FIFA’s member associations have proposed, in due time and form, seven candidates for the presidential election to take place at the Extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich on 26 February 2016.
The candidates proposed are HRH Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, Mr Musa Hassan Bility, Mr Jérôme Champagne, Mr Gianni Infantino, Mr Michel Platini, H.E. Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa and Mr Tokyo Sexwale. Sexwale is South African and a former anti-apartheid activist who was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela. He spent 13 years in jail.
He has been a member of FIFA’s anti-discrimination task
force, has conducted talks between the Palestinian and Israeli federations, and
was a member of the bid team and the organising committee for the 2010 World
Cup, the first held in Africa
Given that Michel Platini is currently provisionally banned
from taking part in any football-related activity, his candidature will not be
processed by theAd-hoc Electoral Committee as long as such ban is valid
and in force. Should such a ban be lifted or expire before the FIFA
presidential election, the Ad-hoc Electoral Committee would decide, depending
on the respective exact point in time, on how to proceed with the candidature
concerned.
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