The FA board said it was “following the ongoing investigation initiated by the Swiss attorney general with which Mr. Platini is co-operating with in full”.
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Blatter, who has been associated with FIFA since 40 years, will be replaced as president when his successor is announced after the elections on February 26, 2016.
The FA board met on Wednesday and later said it maintained its “unanimous” support for Platini.
England’s FA issued a statement after a meeting on Wednesday, recalling it had unanimously backed Platini in July.
Michel Platini’s attempts to explain his £1.35million payment from FIFA are “just not enough”, according to the head of the German Football League (DFL).
Investigators are probing payments made to Platini by Federation Internationale de Football Association counterpart Sepp Blatter, bbc reported.
Meanwhile, reports in Brazil say former Brazilian federation president Jose Maria Marin has agreed a deal with the U.S. justice department that will see him extradited from Switzerland and live under house arrest in his apartment in New York’s Trump Towers.
However, it added: “Events of recent days have raised a number of issues which do need to be fully examined”.
In his first detailed explanation, Platini said on Tuesday that he only requested payment in 2011 because, when he took the job as a Blatter adviser in 1998, FIFA’s “financial situation” meant he could not be paid the “totality” of his salary. The state of the world body’s finances for the period are unclear, however.
FIFA’s accounts for 1999-2002 show a revenue surplus of 115 million Swiss francs (about $83 million in 2002) but a deficit of 134 million Swiss francs had been forecast. He is set to step down as president in February.
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Last week, Swiss prosecutors announced they were investigating Blatter on suspicion of criminal mismanagement in relation to that payment.
