If he becomes president, Chung said he would aim to eliminate corruption and improve its accounting transparency.
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Potential candidates are already planning campaigns for the most high profile job in sports politics.
UEFA president Michel Platini is the strongest contender to succeed Blatter next year, although the 60-year-old has not yet made a final decision. He himself has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
The Feb 26 date agreed by FIFA was a political victory for Blatter over European governing body UEFA and its supporters in other continents, who wanted a December ballot and thought they had a compromise agreement on Sunday for Jan 15.
Current president Joseph Blatter won a fifth term at the ordinary FIFA congress on May 29 but just four days later promised to lay down his mandate amid the latest scandals to hit the world football governing body.
However, he declined to immediately declare his earnings after twice being challenged to do so during a news conference.
“On February 26 FIFA will have a new president and I think I will go back to my work as a journalist”.
“This is for North Korea 2026”, said Brodkin, a former medical doctor, now comedian who performs as the character Lee Nelson, as he put the bills on the desk in front of the embattled president.
Coca-Cola, one of FIFA’s big-money sponsors, is asking for an independent commission to oversee the reform process. Webb, from the Cayman islands, was among the seven people detained in Zurich.
“Fifa is a more political organisation”. “Although members have given me the new mandate, this mandate does not seem to be supported by everyone. He must leave now”, Prince Ali, a vice president for four years until May, said in a statement to the AP.
An embarrassed Blatter looks on with fake dollar notes flying around him, thrown by Brodkin in Zurich yesterday.
Mr Nelson was taken away by security.
“FIFA needs profound restructuring”, he said at the time.
“We have to clean here first”.
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Blatter, who in a panicky voice had called for security while the “money” rained on him, left the auditorium for 10 minutes while staff cleaned up the paper money before returning to speak to media. Some in attendance could be heard laughing with a perplexed Blatter declaring, “This has nothing to do with football”.
