FIDE Election for President

[Wayne Komer]

Re: FIDE Presidential/Executive elections

Nomination for Presidential Tickets
Monday, 12 May 2014

(Released May 26, 2014)

FIDE has received, within the specified deadline of 11 May, 17:00 UTC 2, the following two (2) Presidential Tickets of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Garry Kasparov for the upcoming FIDE elections 2014:

a) Nominated by 56 national federations, the Presidential Ticket of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov:

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov - President
Georgios Makropoulos - Deputy President
Abraham Tolentino - General Secretary
Aguinaldo Jaime - Vice President
Martha Fierro Baquero - Vice President
Adrian Siegel - Treasurer

The national federations which nominate Kirsan Ilyumzhinov's ticket, alphabetically by continent:

AFRICA (22)
01. Algeria
02. Angola
03. Botswana
04. Cameroon
05. Comoros Islands
06. Egypt
07. Gabon
08. Gambia
09. Madagascar
10. Malawi
11. Mauritania
12. Mauritius
13. Morocco
14. Mozambique
15. Namibia
16. Seychelles
17. Sierra Leone
18. Swaziland
19. Togo
20. Tunisia
21. Uganda
22. Zambia

AMERICAS (18)
23. Argentina
24. Barbados
25. Brazil
26. Colombia
27. Dominican Republic
28. Ecuador
29. Guatemala
30. Guyana
31. Haiti
32. Honduras
33. Mexico
34. Netherlands Antilles
35. Nicaragua
36. Panama
37. Peru
38. Surinam
39. Uruguay
40. Venezuela

ASIA (9)
41. Bhutan
42. Cambodia
43. India
44. Iran
45. Korea
46. Maldives
47. Nepal
48. Qatar
49. Uzbekistan

EUROPE (7)
50. Cyprus
51. Georgia
52. Greece
53. Romania
54. Russia
55. Switzerland
56. Turkey

b) Nominated by 20 national federations, the Presidential Ticket of Garry Kasparov:

Garry Kasparov - President
Jan Callewaert - Deputy President
Ignatius Leong - General Secretary
Afrika Msimang - Vice President
Ian Wilkinson - Vice President
Rex Sinquefield- Treasurer

The national federations which nominate Garry Kasparov's ticket, alphabetically by continent:

AFRICA (5)
01. Ghana
02. Ivory Coast
03. Kenya
04. Rwanda
05. South Africa

AMERICAS (2)
06. Jamaica
07. USA

ASIA (8)
08. Afghanistan
09. Australia
10. Hong Kong
11. Kyrgyzstan
12. Macau
13. Myanmar
14. Philippines
15. Singapore

EUROPE (5)
16. Belgium
17. Croatia
18. Iceland
19. Portugal
20. Ukraine

On 9 May 2014 the ticket of Garry Kasparov was submitted to the FIDE secretariat, by lawyer Morten Sand, with the name of Sheikh Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Hamed as Vice-President. The next day, on 10 May, the FIDE Secretariat received an email from Garry Kasparov stating: “(s)ince that filing, Sheikh Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Hamed has informed me that he has become incapable to run for election, and Ian Wilkinson has agreed to replace him as Vice President on my ticket”. Above the 20 nominating federations of Garry Kasparov’s ticket, there were 3 that nominated Sheikh Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Hamed in Garry Kasparov’s ticket (Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Puerto Rico).

[Gary Ruben]

Re: Gary: hire a new campaign team in Canada.

Hold on to your wallet. I don't like where this is headed.

I haven't had a reply yet so don't know.

In any case, get the proxies and seal the deal at the AGM.

[Vlad Drkulec]

Re: Gary: hire a new campaign team in Canada.

There will be no incoming board of governors. It will be voting members at that point. I sent in the application tonight.

Hi Vlad:

Congratulations on all your hard work this past year, shepherding the CFC Governors through this difficult and complex "Continuance" task. You have gotten us there ahead of the deadline - no mean feat - shepherding governors is like trying to shepherd cats! I am sure the final documents arrived at will sail through the acceptance process.

I will be quite pleased to take on the status of a "Voting Member" as my last hurrah at the "Outgoing Voting Members' AGM" on Saturday, June 28.

Bob Armstrong, not-long-to-remain, CFC Governor (GTCL/Ont.)

Thanks Bob. I'm used to herding cats. It probably made me uniquely suited to getting this done. My last bit of required information was the new physical address of the CFC. A quick check to make sure that switching over at this point didn't leave any new vulnerability beyond those I have already identified and now we can wait to see the result.

[Vlad Drkulec]

Re: Gary: hire a new campaign team in Canada.

Where will the money to pay these people come from?

How much money will be left over for chess after everyone is paid?

Hold on to your wallet. I don't like where this is headed.

[Gary Ruben]

Re: Gary: hire a new campaign team in Canada.

Well, you get what you pay for! I'm preparing a plan for CFC - there will be NO unpaid workers/executives/presidents anymore.

Where will the money to pay these people come from?

How much money will be left over for chess after everyone is paid?

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: Gary: hire a new campaign team in Canada.

[QUOTE=Vlad Drkulec;80889]There will be no incoming board of governors. It will be voting members at that point. I sent in the application tonight.[QUOTE]

Hi Vlad:

Congratulations on all your hard work this past year, shepherding the CFC Governors through this difficult and complex "Continuance" task. You have gotten us there ahead of the deadline - no mean feat - shepherding governors is like trying to shepherd cats! I am sure the final documents arrived at will sail through the acceptance process.

I will be quite pleased to take on the status of a "Voting Member" as my last hurrah at the "Outgoing Voting Members' AGM" on Saturday, June 28.

Bob Armstrong, not-long-to-remain, CFC Governor (GTCL/Ont.)

[Vlad Drkulec]

Re: Gary: hire a new campaign team in Canada.

You've already mentioned that for you issue of Canada's vote is over. That's fine, there is nothing more to discuss - the decision on that belongs to the upcoming Board of Governors anyway.

There will be no incoming board of governors. It will be voting members at that point. I sent in the application tonight.

However you've informed us that you are prepared to serve another year or two "doing many hours of unpaid job" while cutting down on teaching chess, something what you love to do and what's paying reasonable fees. I don't get it, are you on a power trip?

Yes, that must be it.

[Sasha Starr]

Re: Gary: hire a new campaign team in Canada.

From these two posts, I can easily see why you wouldn't have a clue why Vlad would take this path.

What is "This path" and why Vlad did take it - please explain!

[Ken MacDonald]

Re: Gary: hire a new campaign team in Canada.

You've already mentioned that for you issue of Canada's vote is over. That's fine, there is nothing more to discuss - the decision on that belongs to the upcoming Board of Governors anyway.
However you've informed us that you are prepared to serve another year or two "doing many hours of unpaid job" while cutting down on teaching chess, something what you love to do and what's paying reasonable fees. I don't get it, are you on a power trip?

Directors ought to get paid - otherwise the present state of affairs will continue for 40 more years! I'm not going to stay around that long...

From these two posts, I can easily see why you wouldn't have a clue why Vlad would take this path.

[Sasha Starr]

Re: Gary: hire a new campaign team in Canada.

Directors ought to get paid - otherwise the present state of affairs will continue for 40 more years! I'm not going to stay around that long...

[Sasha Starr]

Re: Gary: hire a new campaign team in Canada.

It doesn't allow us to print money on the other hand. Unless we make all of our sponsors honorary members we will have some significant increase in accounting costs.

You've already mentioned that for you issue of Canada's vote is over. That's fine, there is nothing more to discuss - the decision on that belongs to the upcoming Board of Governors anyway.
However you've informed us that you are prepared to serve another year or two "doing many hours of unpaid job" while cutting down on teaching chess, something what you love to do and what's paying reasonable fees. I don't get it, are you on a power trip?

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Gary: hire a new campaign team in Canada.

It doesn't allow us to print money on the other hand. Unless we make all of our sponsors honorary members we will have some significant increase in accounting costs.

That's is a business model and its implementation. However, the fact (law) is clear - directors might be paid for their duties.

[Vlad Drkulec]

Re: Gary: hire a new campaign team in Canada.

The Non-for-profit act allows to have paid directors.
"143. (1) Subject to the articles, the by-laws and any unanimous member agreement, the directors of a corporation may fix the reasonable remuneration of the directors, officers and employees of the corporation." http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c...5.html#docCont

It doesn't allow us to print money on the other hand. Unless we make all of our sponsors honorary members we will have some significant increase in accounting costs.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Gary: hire a new campaign team in Canada.

I'm preparing a plan for CFC - there will be NO unpaid workers/executives/presidents anymore.

The Non-for-profit act allows to have paid directors.
"143. (1) Subject to the articles, the by-laws and any unanimous member agreement, the directors of a corporation may fix the reasonable remuneration of the directors, officers and employees of the corporation." http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c...5.html#docCont

[Sasha Starr]

Re: Gary: hire a new campaign team in Canada.

Good luck with that. Make sure that any proposal conforms to the requirements of the NFP act.

This is my lawyers' job.