02/10/2009
NEWS STORY
The FIA has announced that today is the closing date for nominations for the FIA presidency.
A press release issued today reads as follows:
The FIA has received applications from two candidates, Jean Todt and Ari Vatanen. Each has submitted a list of deputies and vice-presidents representing Sport and Mobility, in accordance with the FIA Statutes.
The presidential candidates and their nominees for Senate president have been invited to a meeting on Tuesday 20 October with the FIA president and the FIA secretariat to finalise arrangements for the election.
These will include agreement on the number of speakers for each candidate, the length of their speeches and those of the two candidates, as well as the order of speaking.
Details of the voting procedures will also be discussed. The two candidates will each be invited to nominate scrutineers to be selected by the General Assembly. The entire procedure will be overseen, as usual, by a huissier de justice (a French state-appointed public witness).
The successful candidate will be invited to assume the chairmanship of the meeting as soon as his identity is known.