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F1: Mosley Wins FIA Confidence Vote
Governing body's president manages to retain his job.
RACER & autosport.com  | http://www.racer.com/speedtv  |  Posted June 03, 2008   Paris, France
Mosley: reasons to smile, for the time being. (LAT Photo)

As expected, Max Mosley is to continue as the President of the FIA for the time being after winning a “vote of confidence” in Paris this morning.

Mosley himself called the vote – and set the rules for its undertaking, which included no mention of what would happen had he lost it – after he was accused by the News of the World British tabloid of participating in a “Nazi-style orgy”. He is taking the newspaper to court on invasion of privacy.

The FIA vote in Paris was conducted via a secret ballot; a total of 177 votes were cast, leaving Mosley requiring 89 votes to show that he has retained the confidence of the clubs that make up the FIA. He polled 103 votes, with 55 members voting against him and seven abstentions.

Mosley’s court case against the News of the World on invasion of privacy is expected to be heard in July.

The full statement from the FIA:

“During the Extraordinary General Assembly (EGA) held in Paris today, the FIA Member Clubs voted on a motion of confidence in the FIA President.

The FIA membership voted as follows:

For the motion: 103
Against the motion: 55
Abstentions: 7
Invalid votes 4

Voting in the EGA was made by secret ballot. Votes were counted in private by the FIA legal department in the presence of four scrutineers, selected by the EGA from a list of Delegates proposed by the Chairman of the meeting (the President of the FIA Senate).

The entire voting procedure was supervised by an external Huissier de Justice (French state-appointed public witness).

Paris, 3 June, 2008”

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