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Mosley future hinges on key vote ...
Pressure mounts on Mosley to quit ... will find out on Tuesday if he will carry on as president of motorsport's governing body, the FIA, after a vote of confidence in Paris.
An extraordinary general meeting of the FIA's 222 members has been called to decide Mosley's future after lurid allegations about his private life.
There have been numerous calls for the 68-year-old to quit but Mosley called the EGM and has vowed to fight on.
The results of the secret ballot are expected on Tuesday afternoon.
The situation has reached this stage after Mosley was accused of taking part in a "Nazi-style orgy" with prostitutes by the News of the World.
Mosley, the son of British Union of Fascists founder Sir Oswald Mosley, has apologised for any embarrassment but he denies his actions had Nazi connotations and has launched legal action against the newspaper.
Mosley's tenure as president ends in October 2009 and he says he will not continue beyond this if he wins the vote on Tuesday and will stand down if he loses.
Mosley has to win by a straight majority, but it is not expected that each of the 222 members will submit a vote.
BBC 5 Live motor racing commentator David Croft, who is in Paris for the meeting, said 177 members would vote - some by proxy.
The president of FIA senate and the president of Monte Carlo federation, Michel Boeri, will chair the meeting and there will be questions from the floor.
A report into whether the Nazi connotation to the News of the World was justified was carried out by Anthony Scrivener QC and that will also be presented ahead of the vote.
Several motoring bodies and leading Formula One manufacturers, who are represented by the respective motoring organisation, have already called for Mosley to resign.
Additionally, 22 clubs recently sent a letter to Mosley calling for him stand down and stated that "there was no way back".
The point has been raised that if a similar scenario had occurred in a multi-national company, it would have resulted in the resignation of a person in a similar role.
But former F1 team boss Eddie Jordan said he expected Mosley to win the vote but that he should stand down anyway.
"He absolutely should go," Jordan told 5 Live. "Most people in industry feel he has done some unbelievable good, and if he stays on it is only going to damage that reputation.
"He is going to remembered for the indiscretion only because he has stayed on too long.
"If he was in public life or running a business he would have had to go ages ago, right at the very beginning, possibly that would have been the best thing for him.
"This is going to drag on and on. My view is that he will actually win the vote of confidence but in actual fact there will be enough people who will be against him that it will become very difficult and the tabloids will win."
Three-time F1 world champion Sir Jackie Stewart has had a difficult relationship with Mosley.
The ex-F1 team owner argued that Mosley's reputation is so tarnished that, if he carried on, influential figures would not want to do dealings with him and it would be damaging for the sport overall.
Stewart said: "I think he'll win the vote because most of the people that are going to vote are people who he in fact has appointed. He has positioned them where they wish to be within committees and sub-committees."
(BBC)
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