FIFA vice president Michel Platini vowed Tuesday to tell “nothing but the truth” before appearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in a bid to halt a 90-day suspension by soccer’s world body.

    The appeal is part of a campaign by the 60-year-old Frenchman to get back into the election for a new leader of scandal-tainted FIFA to be held Feb. 26.

    Platini appeared before the CAS tribunal in Lausanne with his lawyers in a bid to get the suspension ordered in October provisionally lifted.

    “I will say nothing more than I have already told you: the truth, all the truth and nothing but the truth,” Platini told reporters with a half smile before entering the tribunal.

    He was accompanied by his Paris-based lawyers Thibaud d’Ales and Thomas Clay.

    FIFA was represented by Swiss lawyer Antonio Rigozzi.

    Sport’s highest appeal court has promised a decision by tomorrow “at the latest.”

    FIFA’s ethics committee suspended the boss of European confederation UEFA in October after he was linked to a criminal probe by Swiss prosecutors.

    According to Platini’s lawyers, FIFA’s ethics watchdog wants the French soccer legend banned for life.

    The Frenchman and FIFA president Sepp Blatter will appear before a FIFA appeal committee Dec. 16-18 for the main challenge against their 90-day suspensions.

    (SD-Agencies)