It means he will not be able to enter the race until next month and is also prevented from attending Saturday’s draw for the Euro 2016 championships.
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It said the current 90-day suspension did not cause “irreparable harm to Michel Platini at this point in time”. The court said Platini’s provisional ban could not be extended by a further 45 days in January.
The Lausanne panel said its decision Friday should not be seen as a judgment about Platini’s guilt or innocence on the corruption charges, which could lead to a lifetime ban on his sports activities.
Platini and Blatter have been suspended since Oct 8, engulfed by a deepening corruption scandal as the sport faces criminal investigations in Switzerland and the United States.
Federation Internationale de Football Association will hold an election to find a replacement for Blatter on February 26.
Blatter, who was provisionally suspended from his job for 90 days in October, was in the hospital for a few days in November.
The suspension expires on January 5, and the court ruling noted that even if it were lifted, there was no guarantee that FIFA’s electoral committee would approve Platini’s candidacy before the temporary ban runs out. He was part of the team that investigated the claims against Platini and Blatter and recommended that they are given multi-year bans.
“The OAG (office of attorney general) served a formal request on UEFA and documents have already been handed over and seized”, Lauber’s office said Friday in a statement.
However, FIFA was not required to pay Platini when more than five years elapsed since the work was completed. In 2002, he joined FIFA’s ruling executive committee, where he became a close friend and associate of Mr. Blatter’s.
They include France’s Jerome Champagne, Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan, South African business tycoon Tokyo Sexwale, Asia’s football chief Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa and Gianni Infantino, Platini’s deputy at UEFA.
UEFA President Michel Platini looks on before the preliminary draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup at Konstantin Palace in St Petersburg, Russia July 25, 2015.
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“Michel Platini has perhaps lost a battle today but he has not lost the war and as long as the war is not lost we can still harbour all hopes”.
