{"id":42923,"date":"2026-05-28T05:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/mohammed-ben-sulayem-proposes-removal-of-term-limits-for-fia-presidents\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:33:29","slug":"mohammed-ben-sulayem-proposes-removal-of-term-limits-for-fia-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/mohammed-ben-sulayem-proposes-removal-of-term-limits-for-fia-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammed Ben Sulayem proposes removal of term limits for FIA presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other FIA roles that currently have term limits include the president of anti-doping committee, and the head of the F1 cost-cap committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The current three-term limit was put in place by Ben Sulayem&#8217;s predecessor Jean Todt. The Frenchman replaced Max Mosley, who served as FIA president from 1993 until agreeing not to stand again following a dispute with F1 teams in 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked by BBC Sport why it was decided to abolish term limits for all posts, rather than instate them for those that don&#8217;t currently have them, an FIA spokesperson was unable to provide a specific answer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, a spokesperson pointed to the NFL in the US, saying Roger Goodell had been commissioner since 2006 and had &#8220;transformed the sport into a global brand and it has an outstanding governance record&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/cy8x9pjjy19o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">rejected the chance to stay on longer than 12 years<\/a> &#8211; a move that would have required a change of statutes &#8211; saying &#8220;our organisation is best served with a change in leadership; new times are calling for new leaders&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tim Mayer, who was blocked from opposing Ben Sulayem for the FIA presidency because of the organisation&#8217;s election rules last year, told BBC Sport: &#8220;Term limits are not a bureaucratic detail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are a fundamental safeguard of good governance, recognised as essential to preventing the concentration of power, ensuring renewal of leadership, and maintaining accountability to those an organisation exists to serve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mayer also pointed to Bach, saying the IOC had &#8220;treated this as a core governance principle&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/clyp7l7zxdyo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other FIA roles that currently have term limits include the president of anti-doping committee, and the head of the F1 cost-cap committee. The current three-term limit was put in place by Ben Sulayem&#8217;s predecessor Jean Todt. The Frenchman replaced Max Mosley, who served as FIA president from 1993 until agreeing not to stand again following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42925,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42923\/revisions\/42925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}