By Andrew Warshaw
August 1 – Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, who quit football over the infamous 2011 cash-for-votes scandal during Sepp Blatter’s re-election campaign, has staged a political comeback after winning back his parliamentary seat in his native Trinidad and Tobago.
Just three months after he stepped down from the Trinidadian government, Warner has won back a seat in Parliament, standing as an independent candidate.
Warner, who had walked away from a clutch of high-profile roles in international football, quit as both National Security Minister and as an MP in his homeland but is now back in business after results showed he received more than twice as many votes as ruling party candidate Khadijah Ameen to reclaim the seat of Chaguanas West, a fast-growing community in central Trinidad where Warner was first elected as parliamentarian in the 1990s.
“Thank you for this resounding victory,” Warner, who has always denied any wrongdoing, told celebrating supporters at the headquarters of the Independent Liberal Party that he founded.
Earlier this year, the reputation of the former CONCACAF president was damaged by the release of the confederation’s Integrity Report into former operations of the confederation’s executive which accused both Warner and ex-CONCACAF general secretary Chuck Blazer “fraudulent in their management” of the region’s finances. Warner and Blazer had been in charge of the confederation for the best part of two decades.
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