Federation Internationale de Football Association president election: Platini bid put on hold

But the shadow of corruption will return when ethics investigators reveal the identity of senior officials facing sanctions.

It means more information could be published in future about the independent ethics committee’s proceedings.

Scala told newsmen on Wednesday that such a move, similar to the rotating presidency of the European Union, would address governance issues and also ease the current problem of a short list of candidates to succeed Joseph Blatter in February.

“We have the feeling that the election committee has not killed Michel Platini”.

Swiss authorities have also launched a criminal investigation into the decision to award the hosting rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russian Federation and Qatar. Beckenbauer was suspended for 90 days in June for failing to respond to questions from Michael Garcia.

But the executive committee confirmed Platini’s bid will not be considered as long as he is suspended.

“Michel Platini is still fighting to save his candidacy and is determined that he will make the election on February 26”.

“FIFA’s leaders must recognize and accept that the errors of the past were real, and they were unacceptable”, reform committee Chairman François Carrard wrote in his proposal.

Both former Switzerland defenders Ramon Vega and Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, president of the Asian Football Confederation, say they are considering running for FIFA’s presidency.

Chung had petitioned the Swiss court for an injunction against the ban so that he could maintain his candidacy pending his appeal to FIFA’s appeal committee and to the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Scala had appeared to leave the door open for Platini earlier on Tuesday by saying that should his ban be lifted, or expire before the February 26 election, FIFA’s ad-hoc electoral committee “would decide… on how to proceed with the candidacy concerned”. The Bahraini royal was seeking advice from colleagues before making a decision.

It also recommended the executive committee become the “FIFA Council”, overseeing “strategic matters” but not having executive powers over policy.

The trio are all banned from attending what will be the first executive committee meeting held without Blatter’s presence for 40 years and Hayatou sees restoring public trust as a matter of priority.

One of FIFA’s top officials, charged with reforming the scandal-hit organisation, has called for a rotating presidency – a move which could transform the politics of soccer’s global governing body.

Should Sheikh Salman enter the race, “he will start with the same big number of potential support”, Sheikh Ahmad said.

“Somebody talks about the government, I don’t think this is our business in football”.