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This article was published May 29, 2015 at 7:18.
It’s tough battle around the re-election of Sepp Blatter as president of FIFA. After the explosion of the scandal – with the US investigation of senior officials for bribes and other organization and with the Swiss survey on the allocation of the World Cup to Russia (2018) and Qatar (2022) – many in Europe now share the criticism came from the US and ask for a step back in Blatter or at least a postponement of the vote scheduled for today in Zurich. But Russia, Asia and Africa are still 79 years old to support Swiss.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called “nothing short of strange” the arrests of seven leaders of the worldwide federation of football implemented the day before yesterday in Zurich, in his opinion it is “a US attempt to extend their jurisdiction to other states. ” Putin to the US is like with the “enemies” Julian Assange (former CIA collaborator) and Edward Snowden (Wikileaks) and theirs is “a clear attempt to prevent the re-election of Sepp Blatter.” Europe has been strengthened instead the line against the re-election.
The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has demanded the resignation of Blatter and said he was “totally opposite” of the English Football Association, which has chosen to support the only rival Swiss, Jordanian Prince Ali bin to Hussein. The British Foreign Minister, Philip Hammond, said that “absolutely need a change of leadership.” For France’s Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, joined at the request of the European federation UEFA yesterday for a postponement of the vote on the new FIFA president.
The Uefa yesterday has also proposed the referral. “The vast majority of European countries will vote Prince Ali,” said UEFA president Michel Platini, in Zurich. Platini confirmed yesterday that he had asked for the resignation of Blatter: “This morning, coming back from Warsaw I went to see the president of FIFA, there was a meeting of the presidents of the federations, Blatter asked us to review our position with respect to the press very hard did yesterday, to reconsider, to support the FIFA. I asked him to resign because I am exhausted, I told him he must have the courage to do so, he replied that it was too late. ” Support to the Jordanian al Hussein could get just by UEFA, including Italy, and also from the South American Confederation (Conmebol) and the North and Central America (Concacaf).
With Blatter have deployed both the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the Confederation of African Football (Caf). To win the game the FIFA presidency in the first round serves a majority of two thirds of the 209 members of the federations, but by the second vote, the quorum is lowered by a simple majority. These are the numbers of the FIFA Congress: African Confederation (CAF) 54 votes; UEFA (Europe) 53; Asian Football Confederation (AFC) 46; North and Central American confederation (Concacaf) 35; Oceania Confederation (OFC) 11, South American Confederation (Conmebol) 10.
Blatter yesterday evening was given still the favorite, despite everything. “I know many people think I’m responsible for the problems. But those who want to cheat they do it quietly, secretly, and I can not see everything. But it’s up to me to pay attention to the reputation of football, “said Blatter in Zurich yesterday, opening up in the late afternoon the congress of FIFA. “The coming months will not be easy for FIFA, I’m sure that will come out more bad news – Blatter added – but you need to start restoring confidence in our organization.”
Meanwhile, Visa joined to the alarm of other sponsors of FIFA, and expressed “deep disappointment and concern” as it emerged. Without “rapid and immediate steps” to resolve the issue, said the Visa, “riesamineremmo our sponsorship.” Concern was also expressed by Nike. Partners such as Adidas and Coca-Cola have asked FIFA to increase transparency and to resolve disputes.
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