Mosley wins confidence vote to secure position
LONDON, England (CNN) — Max Mosley kept his position as the head of world motor sport Tuesday after winning a vote of confidence called over allegations about his sex life.
Mosley won a secret ballot 103-55 — with seven abstentions and four invalid votes — at the specially convened assembly in Paris.
Votes were cast by 140 clubs from 96 countries. They represented a total of 177 votes (including 19 proxies).
Each delegate was called invidividually in front of the assembly and asked to put a sealed envelope containing their vote into the ballot box.
The votes were counted in private by the FIA’s legal department in the presence of four scrutinizers.
The German, American, Japanese, French, Australian and Spanish auto federations all voted against Mosley.
ADAC — the German federation and Europe’s largest automobile organization –said in a statement that it had frozen its activities with the FIA.
An ADAC spokesman also told the British Press Association that it viewed the vote result with regret and incredulity.
Robert Darbelnet, the head of the American Automobile Association (AAA), said the result was a disappointing day for the FIA.
We don’t think his behavior is appropriate for an organization which represents hundreds of millions of motorists. This is not the type of behavior that any organization I know of should be condoning, he told PA.
Mosley had been fighting for his future since March 30, when the UK’s News of the World newspaper alleged he took part in an orgy with Nazi-style role play.
