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EU parliament urges Blatter to quit FIFA immediately

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AFP, STRASBOURG (FRANCE): The European Parliament called Thursday on Sepp Blatter to step down immediately as FIFA president and allow for an interim leader to launch reforms in football’s governing body.
In a show of hands, members of parliament overwhelmingly voted for the resolution during a plenary session in Strasbourg, France.
The resolution is not legally binding, but amounts to political pressure.
In the wake of a massive corruption scandal, Blatter, 79, tendered his resignation on June 2 but it will not take effect until December at the earliest.
In the text approved by parliament, legislators welcomed Blatter’s resignation that came just four days after he was re-elected as head of FIFA for a fifth term.
But it expressed serious concern “that the credibility of FIFA, as world football’s governing body, and the urgent reforms required, cannot begin in earnest until a new leadership is appointed.”
Since that might not happen for another nine months under FIFA rules, the draft “therefore calls on FIFA to select, in a transparent and inclusive way, an appropriate interim leader to replace Joseph Blatter forthwith,” it added.

 

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