Michel Platini will not be recognized as a candidate for FIFA’s presidency while he is under suspension, its executive committee ruled Tuesday in Zurich. But it left the door open to his candidacy should the ban be lifted.
The committee, without mentioning Platini by name, said candidates for the top job who are suspended were not eligible to run. But its statement said that should a ban expire or be lifted before the election, such candidates could be reinstated by the “Ad Hoc Electoral Commission.”
Platini, the president of Europe’s governing body, was at one point considered the front-runner for the post.