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The announcement was a blow for UEFA president Michel Platini
- a delay in the election mooted by some officials would have
given him more time to appeal against a ban from the game and
then stand to replace departing leader Sepp Blatter.
Both Blatter and Platini were suspended by FIFA's Ethics
Committee this month, engulfed by a deepening corruption scandal
as their sport faces criminal investigations in Switzerland and
the United States.
FIFA's executive committee agreed the election would take place
during an extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich on Feb. 26, when
members would also vote in reforming statutes, the organization
said on Twitter.
The committee also agreed to change an article in FIFA's Code of
Ethics which currently allows only the final decisions of cases
can be made public.
The decision followed a request from the Ethics Committee which
cannot at present name individuals who are under investigation
even when their cases have been widely reported in the media.
FIFA is engulfed in the worst crisis in its 111-year history.
(Reporting by Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi)
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