FIDE'S CAMPOMANES P50-M LIBEL SUIT
Manila, April 2. 1998 - FIDE (World Chess Federation) executive director Emmanuel Omuku told a QC court that the FIDE general assembly in Paris in 1995 "unanimously gave Florencio Campomanes a vote of total confidence."
This belied allegations made by newspaper columnist Art Borjal that Campomanes, then FIDE president, was kicked out by the general assembly members during that Paris meeting.
"There was nothing to that effect," Omuku said of the alleged "no confidence" vote against Campomanes. "The truth was world champion Anatoly Karpov proposed a vote of total confidence for Campomanes during the general assembly and this was unanimously approved."
Omuku, who testified at the hearing of Campomanes' P50-million libel suit against Borjal at the sala of QC RTC Branch 82 Judge Salvador Ceguera, explained that Karpov's proposal came a day after Campomanes had told the assembly that he was going to voluntariily vacate the presidency because he lost the reason for being FIDE head since he could not get Karpov and Garri Kasparov together.
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