The soccer governing body FIFA is moving ahead with plans to hold an election today to pick the next president of the organization, despite a wide-ranging corruption scandal. Earlier this week, nine high-ranking soccer officials, including two current FIFA vice presidents, were indicted along with five sports marketing executives on federal corruption charges by the U.S. Justice Department. FIFA President Sepp Blatter is not facing charges, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch has refused to say whether he is under investigation. At today’s elections in Zurich, Blatter is seeking re-election for the post he has held since 1998. Many commentators have predicted he will be re-elected, though some nations, including the United States, have vowed to vote against him. On Thursday, Alaphia Zoyab of the group Avaaz was among those who took to the streets of Zurich to call for Blatter to step down.

Alaphia Zoyab: “Our key message is that Sepp Blatter needs to step down. He has been the head honcho of this organization where corruption has been rampant. He has not taken responsibility for it. He needs to go. And we’ve also seen that FIFA is too corrupt to care about human rights. When they awarded the World Cup to Qatar, we’ve seen that there’s been massive slavery on all the construction sites. FIFA has not really done anything about it, and the FIFA spokesperson just told me that they’re not even asking Qatar to commit to a timeline to abolish this system.”