CONCACAF: Alfredo Hawit's successor as president shall be elected at the congress on 12/05/2016

"CONCACAF today announced that the confederation’s Executive Committee voted unanimously to not appoint a successor president of CONCACAF and to operate the confederation through the members of the Executive Committee as a whole until a new president is democratically elected by its member associations. The vote will take place at the 31^st CONCACAF ordinary congress on 12/05/2016, in Mexico City," announced the confederation of North, Central America and the Caribbean, on 07/12/2015.

The Honduran Alfredo Hawit, president of CONCACAF -- like the Paraguayan Juan Angel Napout, president of CONMEBOL -- was arrested in Zurich (SUI) and detained for extradition to the United States on 03/12/2015. Alfredo Hawit was indicted by the US Department of Justice on 03/12/2015. He is suspected, along with 15 other leaders (six from CONCACAF) charged the same day, of racketeering, financial fraud and money laundering.

"The CONCACAF Executive Committee concluded that, in light of current events, it is critical that the confederation’s next president be determined by a public election and the…