Sepp Blatter will retain his FIFA presidency after Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein announced he was withdrawing from the electon.
A host of football leaders and pundits from across Europe have called for Mr Blatter to either resign or be voted out after Swiss police carried out a dawn raid on Wednesday and arrested seven officials.
They included Jeffrey Webb, a Fifa vice-president from the Cayman Islands who holds a British passport, and fellow vice-president, Eugenio Figueredo from Uruguay.
The US Department of Justice charged 18 people over alleged bribes totalling more than 150 million US dollars (£98 million) paid for television rights, sponsorship deals and World Cup votes, with the payments allegedly transfered using American wire and banking facilities.
In a separate development, the Swiss attorney general also opened criminal proceedings over the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, seized documents and electronic data from Fifa’s headquarters, and will question 10 current Fifa executive committee members who voted on that tournament.
Sepp Blatter re-elected as FIFA president as Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein withdraws
