Sepp Blatter addresses a news conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland June 2, 2015. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU lawmakers called on FIFA President Sepp Blatter on Thursday to step down immediately, saying that his failure to do so would delay ridding soccer's governing body of its "rampant, systemic and deep-rooted" corruption.
The European Parliament voted by a clear show of hands in favour of an eight-page resolution with a series of demands to clean up the sport. FIFA said in a statement that it was "perplexed," but later announced that the election of a new president would take place between December and February.
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