Overview
- Paris’s Judicial Court authorized Laura Villars to summon the FIA before an emergency judge, with the hearing set for November 10 and a conciliation meeting invited by the court.
- Villars is asking the court to suspend the December 12 presidential election until judges rule on whether the process complies with FIA statutes.
- Election rules require a slate of vice-presidents drawn from an approved World Motor Sport Council list for each global region, with South America offering only Fabiana Ecclestone, who is aligned with the incumbent.
- Rival campaigns were unable to submit complete lists by the October 24 deadline, leaving Mohammed Ben Sulayem as the only eligible candidate for a second term.
- The FIA says the election framework is a structured, democratic process grounded in longstanding statutes and has declined to comment further during the legal proceedings.