FIDE presidential candidate Arkady Vladimirovich Dvorkovich filed a libel suit against FIDE Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos, who also runs for FIDE President: “I announced that I would take all possible legal measures to protect my reputation and good name. Yesterday my Swiss lawyers filed a petition to the District Attorney’s office in Lausanne in order to prosecute Mr. Makropoulos for defamation”, Dvorkovich yesterday tweeted. His move came after Makropoulos had announced in the last few days that letters about alleged misconduct on the part of his Russian rival had been sent to both FIDE Ethics Commission and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), asking both authorities to formally ban Dvorkovich from entering the electoral contest.
The only other candidate, British Grandmaster Nigel Short, enjoyed, at least so far, a quasi-judicial immunity, in spite of his just-announced electoral pact with Dvorkovich (the anastatic reprint of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), which could well make the difference between Olympus’s peak and Achilles’s tent on a decisive second ballot. Yesterday Short even evoked the ghost of a fanatical bigot Torquemada, best known for wanting to impeach a democratically elected President for his extra-marital affairs, in an attempt to undermine the certainties of his fellow countryman Malcom Pein (who’s chosen Makropoulos’s cartel) — and probably it was just a way of adding something else, possibly pruriginous and possibly intriguing, to the upcoming première of The reincarnation in himself of his divine predecessor.
All jokes aside, in the end only one will be FIDE President — let’s only hope that this time the other two won’t be banned for life for daring to really run for President, pretending not to know what everyone knows.
The only other candidate, British Grandmaster Nigel Short, enjoyed, at least so far, a quasi-judicial immunity, in spite of his just-announced electoral pact with Dvorkovich (the anastatic reprint of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), which could well make the difference between Olympus’s peak and Achilles’s tent on a decisive second ballot. Yesterday Short even evoked the ghost of a fanatical bigot Torquemada, best known for wanting to impeach a democratically elected President for his extra-marital affairs, in an attempt to undermine the certainties of his fellow countryman Malcom Pein (who’s chosen Makropoulos’s cartel) — and probably it was just a way of adding something else, possibly pruriginous and possibly intriguing, to the upcoming première of The reincarnation in himself of his divine predecessor.
All jokes aside, in the end only one will be FIDE President — let’s only hope that this time the other two won’t be banned for life for daring to really run for President, pretending not to know what everyone knows.
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