FIFA: 5 candidates declared eligible, Musa Bility is disqualified with Michel Platini still pending

"On 09/11/2015, the Ad-hoc Electoral Committee admitted and declared five candidates eligible to stand for election to the office of FIFA president. The election will take place at the Extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich on 26/02/2016," announced FIFA on 12/11/2015. The Ad-hoc Electoral Committee has approved five applications after analysing the integrity checks conducted by the investigatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee for each candidate.

The five candidates declared eligible by the Ad-hoc Electoral Committee are:

• Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein (Jordan)
• Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa (Bahrain)
• Jérôme Champagne (France)
• Gianni Infantino (Switzerland)
• Tokyo Sexwale (South Africa)

Seven candidates had submitted their bids "in time and in the appropriate format" before the deadline for submission of applications, on 26/10/2015.

Michel Platini, UEFA president, was suspended for a period of 90 days from any activity in football at national and international level by the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee, on 08/10/2015. This suspension, which Michel Platini…