Fifa’s members have voted against delaying the presidential elections, where Sepp Blatter is the only candidate.
|||Zurich – Fifa voted to go ahead with its presidential election on Wednesday after the world soccer governing body's Congress rejected a proposal from the English FA that it should be postponed.
Seventeen associations voted in favour of the proposal at the annual Congress while 172 voted it against it, leaving incumbent Sepp Blatter to be re-elected unopposed later on Wednesday.
Fifa said that 206 associations had been eligible to vote.
England's proposal, raised in light of a damaging corruption scandal that led to the suspension of two senior Fifa officials following cash-for-votes allegations, had needed 75 percent of the votes to be approved.
“We need a strong president, a strong Fifa to move forward, otherwise the next few months will be open to all kinds of allegations,” said Cyprus FA president Costakis Koutsokoumnis, one of several delegates to address Congress.
“We must not allow third parties, politicians, people outside this room to enter Fifa's agenda. We must trust the president to present us with a valid programme to fix whatever we, the people of football, think is wrong with Fifa.
“To postpone elections at a time when a lot of work must be put into Fifa, that would be extremely wrong.” – Reuters
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/fifa-election-to-go-ahead-1.1076838
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