ZURICH – Sepp Blatter has a good chance to get today to 79 years a fifth term as President of the International Football Federation despite the corruption scandal that shook the Fifa since Wednesday and the call for the resignation launched yesterday by the UEFA president, Michel Platini.
The Swiss want reforms yesterday to erase the humiliation that touches the governing body of world football, while ensuring that it could not ” watch everyone all the time. “
He met with Michel Platini, who called for his resignation.
” People are tired, people do not want (that) President (…) and I either, “said the former captain of the France team. “Today I come to ask you to leave Fifa, to resign from FIFA.”
He added that “a very large majority of European national associations” would vote for the rival Sepp . Blatter, Jordanian Prince Ali
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AMMAN – The Army of the conquest, a coalition of rebel groups, announced yesterday taking Ariha, the last town Idlib province in the northwest of Syria, which was still held by the government.
The coalition, called Djaich al Fatah, including the forehead member Al Nosra, the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda. She said she had taken control of several dams defending the city
Public Syrian television then announced that the Syrian army had withdrawn from Ariha
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LONDON / PARIS – British Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday that his country’s relations with the EU were not good enough and invited his European counterparts to be “imaginative” to implement the EU reform he wishes before a referendum on maintaining the UK in the EU by the end of 2017.
Speaking after a meeting with François Hollande in Paris on the first day of a European tour to convince its partners, David Cameron said he had been mandated to address the concerns of British voters EU vis-à-vis.
Stressing that France wanted the UK remains in the EU, it showed its willingness to negotiate pragmatically with London. David Cameron will present its proposals, we will discuss them and see how we can move forward to the British people can be consulted on a basis that will enable him to make the choice that corresponds to it, “said the French president.
David Cameron is expected today in Warsaw and Berlinpour talks with his Polish counterpart, Ewa Kopacz and German Angela Merkel
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ATHENS -. The Greek government hopes to conclude a financial agreement with creditors by Sunday, said yesterday his spokesman, but the ECB and the IMF remain very cautious about the chances of a speedy conclusion of the ongoing discussions.
Vice President of the Central Bank European (ECB), Vitor Constancio stressed the seriousness of the situation by excluding any relief for the time constraints imposed on Greece in access to liquidity.
If he ruled out a Greek exit from the area, he mentioned the possibility of a default.
Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director, was more pessimistic saying that a Greek exit from the eurozone was possible, adding that it probably will not mean the end of the single currency
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MADRID. – Six people, including two former treasurers of the Popular Party (PP) in power in Spain, will be tried on charges of corruption and secret funding, announced yesterday the Spanish justice.
The trial, expected open by the end of the year, fell ill to the prime minister Mariano Rajoy as it should coincide with perilous election for the Conservative Party after its recent decline in regional and municipal elections.
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BORDEAUX – The former UMP minister Eric Woerth was cleared yesterday of charges of abuse of weakness on the billionaire Liliane Bettencourt for funding the election campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 .
The former minister, who was also believed to have awarded the Legion of Honour in 2008 to Patrice de Maistre, wealth manager of L’Oreal heiress in exchange for the hiring of his wife in 2007 in its society, was also acquitted for “influence peddling” alleged.
The Bordeaux Criminal Court has however condemned the photographer François-Marie Banier and Patrice de Maistre to prison sentences for “abuse of weakness”, especially at the expense of the heiress of L’Oreal from 2006 to 2010.
François-Marie Banier, accused of having benefited from the largesse Liliane Bettencourt for amounts exceeding € 400 million, was sentenced to three years in prison, six months suspended sentence and 350,000 euro fine. It must also pay the guardianship of Liliane Bettencourt 158 million euros in compensation for civil purposes, and the two buildings that were seized during the procedure will be confiscated.
Patrice de Maistre was sentenced to three years in prison with one year suspended sentence and 250,000 euro fine for having received donations totaling 12 million euros
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PARIS -. François Fillon yesterday implicitly accused Hollande of having hatched a political plot by running the thesis that he had asked the Elysée to accelerate the course of justice against Nicolas Sarkozy.
The former Prime Minister continues the UMP secretary general Elysee, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, and two journalists of the World for defamation. He told the Criminal Court Parisavoir the conviction that the right arm of the head of state was “government business” when he referred to the last two of a process of this nature from her.
“I do not accept such dirt, which I understand only too well the reasons,” said Francois Fillon, who spoke of an “operation” to the “discredit” and “drive a wedge” in his political family
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PARIS -. The socialist activists yesterday reappointed Jean-Christophe Cambadélis the post of first secretary of the PS, a vote that legitimizes his authority on the party and, by extension, the “line” of Francois Hollande and Manuel Valls.
This designation confirms without surprise the vote of PS activists last week on the four “orientation motions” which were in the running. The “loyalist” motion of Jean-Christophe Cambadélis had rallied 60% of the votes while the elected “slingers” led by MP Christian Paul, had collected 29% of the vote.
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