hearing at the Judicial Court of Paris<\/a> earlier this week to have her complaints about the process heard.<\/p>\nShe feels that rules that have resulted in no one other than Ben Sulayem being able to stand, because no rival can pull together a team to fulfil the presidential list requirements, are a breach of the FIA’s own statutes.<\/p>\n
A judicial hearing took place in Paris on Monday to discuss the matter, with the judge declaring that a ruling would be made on December 3.<\/p>\n
While one possible outcome of the action could be a suspension of the election, which is due to take place on December 12 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, for now the FIA’s process is continuing as normal.<\/p>\n
The FIA has duly published its lists of eligible candidates based on those who were successfully able to pull together the required presidential list by the October 24 deadline.<\/p>\n
A document now published on the FIA’s official website declared there is just one single presidential list that has been accepted: Ben Sulayem’s.<\/p>\n
Ben Sulayem’s presidential list<\/p>\n
Mohammed Ben Sulayem (UAE) – president of the FIA
Carmelo Sanz De Barros (Spain) – president of the senate
Timothy Shearman (Canada) – deputy president for automobile mobility and tourism
Malcolm Wilson (UK) – deputy president for sport
Abdulla al-Khalifa (Bahrain) – vice-president for sport (Middle East and North Africa)
Rodrigo Rocha (Mozambique) – vice-president for sport (Africa)
Daniel Coen (Costa Rica) – vice-president for sport (North America)
Fabiana Ecclestone (Brazil) – vice-president for sport (South America)
Lung-Nien Lee (Singapore) – vice-president for sport (Asia-Pacific)
Manuel Avi\u00f1\u00f3 (Spain) – vice-president for sport (Europe)
Anna Nordkvist (Sweden) – vice-president for sport (Europe)<\/p>\n
The presidential list needs to be made up of the president and a team of 10 other individuals: the president of the senate; the deputy president for automobile mobility and tourism; the deputy president for sport; plus seven vice-presidents for sport.<\/p>\n
The seven vice-presidents for sport – from a variety of regions – must be taken from a list of candidates that the FIA has approved as individuals who are eligible to stand on the World Motor Sport Council<\/p>\n
The demand is for there to be one from each of North America, South America, Asia-Pacific, Africa, MENA (Middle East and North Africa), plus two from Europe.<\/p>\n
However, when the FIA published its list of eligible World Motor Sport Council candidates there was only one figure from Brazil – Fabiana Ecclestone – who was part of Ben Sulayem’s team.<\/p>\n
That effectively meant that none of Ben Sulayem’s potential rivals – Tim Mayer, Villars and Virginie Philipott – could pull together a presidential list that is required to stand.<\/p>\n
This has triggered complaints to the FIA ethics committee from Mayer<\/a>, as well as prompted Villars’s legal action.<\/p>\nThe FIA has long insisted, however, that the election process has been transparent and fully democratic, with deadlines and requirements all publicly available.<\/p>\n
Speaking last month, an FIA spokesperson said about the presidential list situation: “The requirements related to the regional representation of the vice presidents for sport, and to select them from the World Motor Sport Council in order to draw up a presidential list, are not new. These criteria applied to previous elections.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FIA has officially declared incumbent Mohammed Ben Sulayem as the only candidate eligible to stand in December’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-284381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}