Qatar 2022: the Council of Europe calls on FIFA to conduct a new vote

"FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) cannot evade the obligation to hold a new vote," said the Council of Europe, concerning the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, in a report from the Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly published on 27/01/2015.

The report and the accompanying resolution will be submitted to the plenary session of PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe), from 20 to 24/04/2015. A resolution from the meeting, which brings together over 300 parliamentarians from the 47 member states of the Council of Europe, has no binding force.

• Joseph Blatter, president of FIFA, will be invited to the plenary session of PACE in April 2015.

"Direct correlation' between these flagrant irregularities and the outcome of the vote" (Michael Connarty, MP, United Kingdom)

• "The decision to assign the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was so 'radically flawed' by illegal payments that FIFA should hold a new vote under cleaned-up procedures," according to a committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). 
• "'Large sums of…