Russia and Belarus seem to have not been suspended from the international correspondence chess federation ICCF.
The ICCF Extraordinary Congress tried to suspend the Russian and Belarus federations.
Online voting was carried out from 27 April — 09 May 2022.
ICCF's homepage does not provide a clear result. I do not see it. The link to that Congress disappeared recently (and later, it is changing again!).
The downloadable table of the voting results does not show at once what country made what decision.
An excerpt from the results:
EC 2022-003 Suspend the Russian Federation — Void if EC 2022-001 is Defeated
For 33, Against 10, Abstain 14
I calculate that FOR: 58%.
EC 2022-01 — Amendment of ICCF Statute Article 17 — required 2/3 votes. The result was:
For 34, Against 10, Abstain 13
I calculate that FOR: 60%, which is less than the required 2/3 or 67%.
Thus, it seems that the ICCF failed to change its Statute to allow the suspension of Russia and Belarus based on majority voting.
Unfortunately, in my homeland Estonia, there is no information available on how our representative voted (if he voted) and based on what considerations.
The national federation has not officially responded to my question sent through the ICCF server. I also do not see any relevant news on the national federation's website.
