Sepp Blatter will stand unopposed in Wednesday's FIFA presidential election, after two senior FIFA members were suspended pending a full inquiry into bribery charges.
Jack Warner and Mohamed Bin Hammam were suspended from all football-related activity by FIFA's ethics committee.
Bin Hammam had already withdrawn from the FIFA presidential election early on Sunday. FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke announced that the election, with Blatter as the only candidate, will nonetheless take place as scheduled on Wednesday.
That decision comes as a complaint against Blatter by Bin Hammam that he knew about the $40,000 payments to Caribbean Football Union officials was rejected.
Petrus Damaseb, the Namibian judge presiding over the ethics committee, ruled that there was enough evidence against Bin Hammam and Warner for them to be suspended prior to a full inquiry.
He told a news conference in Zurich: "Mr Bin Hammam is hereby provisionally banned from taking part in any football-related activity until FIFA's ethics committee take a decision on this matter, and the same decision for Mr Jack Warner."