The FIA has officially declared incumbent Mohammed Ben Sulayem as the only candidate eligible to stand in December's presidential vote, with a court ruling on the election process expected at the start of next month.
Rival candidate Laura Villars won a hearing at the Judicial Court of Paris earlier this week to have her complaints about the process heard.
She feels that rules that have resulted in no one other than Ben Sulayem being able to stand, because no rival can pull together a team to fulfil the presidential list requirements, are a breach of the FIA's own statutes.
A judicial hearing took place in Paris on Monday to discuss the matter, with the judge declaring that a ruling would be made on December 3.
While one possible outcome of the action could be a suspension of the election, which is due to take place on December 12 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, for now the FIA's process is continuing as normal.
The FIA has duly published its lists of eligible candidates based on those who were successfully able to pull together the required presidential list by the October 24 deadline.
A document now published on the FIA's official website declared there is just one single presidential list that has been accepted: Ben Sulayem's.
Ben Sulayem's presidential list
Mohammed Ben Sulayem (UAE) - president of the FIA
Carmelo Sanz De Barros (Spain) - president of the senate
Timothy Shearman (Canada) - deputy president for automobile mobility and tourism
Malcolm Wilson (UK) - deputy president for sport
Abdulla al-Khalifa (Bahrain) - vice-president for sport (Middle East and North Africa)
Rodrigo Rocha (Mozambique) - vice-president for sport (Africa)
Daniel Coen (Costa Rica) - vice-president for sport (North America)
Fabiana Ecclestone (Brazil) - vice-president for sport (South America)
Lung-Nien Lee (Singapore) - vice-president for sport (Asia-Pacific)
Manuel Aviñó (Spain) - vice-president for sport (Europe)
Anna Nordkvist (Sweden) - vice-president for sport (Europe)
The presidential list needs to be made up of the president and a team of 10 other individuals: the president of the senate; the deputy president for automobile mobility and tourism; the deputy president for sport; plus seven vice-presidents for sport.
The seven vice-presidents for sport - from a variety of regions - must be taken from a list of candidates that the FIA has approved as individuals who are eligible to stand on the World Motor Sport Council
The demand is for there to be one from each of North America, South America, Asia-Pacific, Africa, MENA (Middle East and North Africa), plus two from Europe.
However, when the FIA published its list of eligible World Motor Sport Council candidates there was only one figure from Brazil - Fabiana Ecclestone - who was part of Ben Sulayem's team.
That effectively meant that none of Ben Sulayem's potential rivals - Tim Mayer, Villars and Virginie Philipott - could pull together a presidential list that is required to stand.
This has triggered complaints to the FIA ethics committee from Mayer, as well as prompted Villars's legal action.
The FIA has long insisted, however, that the election process has been transparent and fully democratic, with deadlines and requirements all publicly available.
Speaking last month, an FIA spokesperson said about the presidential list situation: "The requirements related to the regional representation of the vice presidents for sport, and to select them from the World Motor Sport Council in order to draw up a presidential list, are not new. These criteria applied to previous elections."
