MADRID - Spain's government said on Tuesday it will decide whether to suspend the frontrunner to lead the country's soccer federation (RFEF) while it determines with world governing body FIFA how to reform an organisation mired in a corruption scandal.

Jose Manuel Rodriguez Uribes, president of the state-run Superior Council of Sport (CSD), told a parliamentary hearing he had called for a meeting of the CSD board after Spain's sports tribunal TAD on Monday opened a case against Pedro Rocha and the RFEF's leadership for "very serious misconduct" and a criminal court judge advanced a separate investigation over alleged corruption within the federation.