The National Appeals Committee announced today, Sunday, April 28, the rejection of the appeal submitted by the list of candidate Wassef Jalil against the electoral authority’s disqualification of his list from running in the Tunisian Football Federation elections.
The Appeals Committee decided to return the lists of candidates Ziad Al-Tilmisani and Jalal Taqiyya to the Elections Commission to reconsider the legitimacy of the two lists.
The Appeals Committee received appeals against the Tunisian Union election lists
Yesterday, Saturday, the Appeals Committee of the Tunisian Football Federation received two files from the list of candidate Wassef Jalil. The first includes an appeal against the decision of the Independent Election Commission to drop his list, while the second file includes two appeals against the lists of Jalal Taqiyya and Ziad Al-Tilmisani after the decision to accept their candidacy by the Independent Election Commission.
Elections will be held next May 11, to determine the identity of the new president of the Football League to succeed Wadih Al-Jari, who did not complete his term due to his imprisonment by the local authorities for investigation, in files related to the way he ran the federation during the past years.
The first list is headed by Ziad Tlemcen, the former star of the Tunisian national team and the Tunisian club Esperance, and the second is Jalal Taqia, who has held several positions as an official in the Football Association, and worked as an advisor to the former Minister of Youth and Sports, Tariq Diab, and president of the Tunisian Sports for All Federation, while the third list concerns the official Wassef. Jalil, who worked for many years in the position of former Vice President of the Union, Wadih Al-Jari, before he was excluded from the election race.
The identity of the nominated names included some well-known sporting faces of Tunisian football as members of the two lists, such as Khaled Badra, one of the most prominent players in the generation of the national team that led Tunisia to win the African Cup in 2004, after he joined Ziad Tlemcen’s list, which also included the name of the former Club Africain star, Faouzi Rouissi. .
The Tunisian sports street longs for a football revolution that will change the reality of failure that has become prevalent in local football, especially with the disappointing exclusion of the national team.Eagles of Carthage“From the first round of the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations finals in Côte d’Ivoire, and the decline in the level of the local league, which paved the way for talk about the necessity of making changes, starting with the structure supervising the game, especially with the approaching end of the parliamentary term of the current university office.
