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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:
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).
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