Mehdi Taj has been removed from the list of candidates for the presidency of the Football Federation.
Sending the letter related to the judicial qualification and lack of criminal record of the candidates to the Football Federation about the approval of only two candidates in the presidential domain will change the conditions for the election on September 8th.
The preliminary election committee of the Football Federation, 21 days before the extraordinary presidential election, introduced Mehdi Taj, Mirshad Majedi, and Azizollah Mohammadi as the relevant candidates, but they were waiting for the final approval from the judicial authorities and legal institutions of the country. Follow-ups show that yesterday a legal letter was handed over to the Secretary-General of the Federation, in which the names of Mirshad Majedi and Azizollah Mohammadi were announced as individuals without judicial issues to participate in the Federation’s election. However, there was no mention of Mehdi Taj’s name in this letter. In fact, if the former president of the Football Federation cannot convince the country’s judicial authorities regarding his participation in the Federation’s election, excluding him from the list of candidates is completely legal.
In a situation where, after last night’s talks by Hassan Kamrani Far on the Football Bartar program, stating that so far the qualifications of two presidential candidates of the Football Federation have been confirmed, some news about the disqualification of Mehdi Taj by the competent authorities has been published, but the security department of the Football Federation has reacted to this issue.
Hamisi, the head of security of the Football Federation, considering the speculations and controversies created regarding the qualification determination of the candidates for the Football Federation elections, stated that so far no disqualification has been received from any authority by this security department, which is responsible for following up such correspondences.
