The push for amendments, which if met with approval at a vote of the FIA assembly on December 13, would hand Ben Sulayem more power, according to a report by the BBC. Such a move would see the FIA president, and president of the senate, Carmelo Sanz De Barros, oversee any ethical complaints, rather than the senate.

The FIA is looking to revise its policies in order to reduce the mechanisms for holding its leadership accountable for poor governance, BBC Sport reports. This means that FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulaymen would neutralise the abilities of informers to clearly expose questionable behaviour to the ethics and audit committees.