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It is official: the presidential elections of the FIDE will be a race of three horses between Arkady Dvorkovich Georgios Makropoulos and Nigel Short . "Makro" presented his ticket with a surprisingly high number of support federations: 64.
After yesterday's deadline of 3 July 2018, 17:00 (Athens time), exactly three months before the elections, the three presidential candidates of the FIDE the tickets were presented today on the website of the FIDE
We give the information below as FIDE, in alphabetical order.
a) Designated by 13 national federations, the presidential ticket of Arkady Dvorkovich : [19659002] Arkady Dvorkovich (Russia) – President
Bachar Kouatly (France) – President Deputy
Sewa Enyonam Fumey (Togo) – Secretary General
Mahir Mammedov (Azerbaijan) – Vice President
Julio Granda Zuniga (Peru) – Vice President
Zhu Chen (Qatar) – Treasurer
The national chess federations that nominated the Dvorkovich ticket are Ghana, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Nicara gua, Iraq, Mongolia, Qatar, Azerbaijan, Belarus, France , Moldova and Russia.
b) Appointed by 64 National Federations, the Presidential Note of Georgios Makropoulos :
Georgios Makropoulos (Greece) – President
Malcolm Pein (England ) – Deputy President
Sundar Damal Villivalam (India) – Secretary General
Martha Fierro (Ecuador) – Vice President
Chitalu Chilufya (Zambia) – Vice President
Adrian M. Siegel (Switzerland) – Treasurer
The national federations of chess that proposed the Makropoulos ticket are Algeria, Comoros, Congo, Egypt, Gabon, Lesotho, Liberia , Madagascar, Mauritania, Senegal, Swaziland, Zambia, Argentina, Aruba, Barbados, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, On Iname, Uruguay, US Virgin Islands, Ba ngladesh, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Maldives, Nauru, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Andorra, Cyprus, former Yugoslavia. Republic of Macedonia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guernsey, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, San Marino, Scotland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland.
c) Designated by 6 national federations, the presidential ticket of Nigel Short :
Nigel Short (England) – President
Lukasz Marek Turlej ( Poland) – Deputy President
Ruth Haring (USA) – Secretary General
Olalekan Adeyemi (Nigeria) – Vice President
Paul Spiller (New Zealand) – Vice President [19659007] Panu Wool (Finland) – Treasurer
The National Chess Federations that nominated the Short Ticket are Nigeria, USA, New Zealand, England, Finland, Poland
(See FIDE website for candidates for the continental presidential elections.
The official tickets above are in accordance with the information given by the three candidates.The only surprise is the high number of federations offering Makrop's ticket oulos, knowing that each ticket requires only a minimum of five support federations.
It is important to note that the appointments say nothing about the final results; Only the actual vote of 3 October in Batumi will determine the winner. So, what does it mean that Makro presented his ticket with 64 support federations?
He shows above all the excellent relations that he has with a large number of federations, accumulated over a long period of time. Traditionally, the current leadership of FIDE – formerly led by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov – has received considerable support from the Americas, where Makropoulos' accomplice Jorge Vega is the continental president.
Silvio Danailov former president of the Bulgarian Chess Federation and known opponent of Makropoulos, has his own explanation: Makro wanted to show his muscles
FIDE currently has 189 member federations. Even if all the aforementioned federations stick to their nominations (which is not certain at all), there is still a lot of voices to defend.
The three candidates still have three months to campaign. Without taking a stand in the current election, Chess.com can only support Short's suggestion of a public debate among the three, somewhere in the coming months.
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