Max Mosley: should he be sacked by the FIA?
The FIA meeting to decide president Max Mosley’s future has been scheduled for 3 June.
A statement from the sport’s governing body also confirmed that a vote of confidence in Mosley would take place during the meeting.
Mosley asked the FIA to hold an extraordinary general meeting after allegations about his sexual behaviour were published in the News of the World.
The meeting was always likely to be several weeks in the future, because the FIA had to first hold a fax vote to agree on holding it, and because its assembly includes 222 different organisations from 134 countries.
“The FIA can confirm that the members of the Senate have unanimously approved the proposal of the President of the FIA, that further to the recent press coverage relating to his private life, an Extraordinary General Assembly should be convened,” said an FIA statement.
The meeting will be held on June 3, 2008, in Paris and the General Assembly will include a vote of confidence by secret ballot.
Since the meeting was announced last week, several national sporting and motoring authorities - including the American, Dutch, German, New Zealand and Canadian bodies - have called on Mosley to consider his position.
He has faced similar pressure from within Formula 1, with BMW, Mercedes, Honda and Toyota issuing critical statements in Bahrain.
Mosley had to abandon his plan to attend the Bahrain Grand Prix, with The Times newspaper reporting that the Crown Prince had specifically requested that he stay away.
The FIA president is not disputing the whole content of the News of the World’s allegations- but rejects that the paper’s suggestion that his sexual role-play had Nazi overtunes, and is suing the publication under privacy laws.
That court hearing is also likely to take place in June.
Mosley has so far resisted all calls for his resignation, and has insisted that his private sexual activities should have no bearing on his FIA position, BUT, what do you think?
Is Mosley’s position untenable in Formula 1 or do we turn a blind eye to his perverse sexual activities with prostitutes?
What do you think?
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