Egypt: FIFA appoints a normalisation committee to hold Egyptian FA elections before 31/07/2020

"The Bureau of the FIFA Council today decided to appoint a normalisation committee for the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) in accordance with art. 14 par. 1 (a) and art. 8 par. 2 of the FIFA Statutes," announced the International Federation on 20/08/2019.

According to FIFA, "the mandate of the normalisation committee will include the following:
• To run the daily affairs of EFA;
• To review the EFA Statutes (and other regulations where necessary) to ensure their compliance with the FIFA Statutes and requirements, and to ensure their adoption by the EFA Congress;
• To review the statutes of the EFA members and ensure their alignment with the new EFA Statutes as well as with the FIFA Statutes and requirements, and ensure that said statutes are adopted by the relevant members;
• To organise and conduct elections for all EFA members based on their new statutes;
• As a last step, to act as an electoral committee in order to organise and conduct elections of a new EFA board based on the newly aligned EFA Statutes."

FIFA's decision follows the resignation of Hani Abu Rida, president…