Incumbent Joseph Blatter and his three challengers - Jordan's Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, Dutchman Michael van Praag and Portugal's Luis Figo - are admitted as candidates for the presidency of the ruling football body FIFA. FIFA said in a statement that "Following the required regulatory assessments, the Ad-hoc Electoral Committee has today formally admitted and declared the candidates eligible for the election of the office of FIFA President at the FIFA Congress in Zurich on 29 May 2015."