Max Mosley will remain FIA president, after achieving a clear win in the secret confidence ballot conducted in Paris today (3rd June 2008).

During the Extraordinary General Assembly (EGA) held in Paris today, the FIA Member Clubs voted on a motion of confidence in the FIA President who has been embroiled in a highly controversial scandal following a media expose about his private sex life.

According to a press release from the International body the Federation Internationale de l' Automobile (FIA), paris, 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 a 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).

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