The New University Action (NAU) won the first round to form the Federation of Students of the Catholic University (FEUC), the leftist movement had 50% plus 42 votes, however, the results have yet to be confirmed by Tricel in the next five days.
Preliminary results indicate that the NAU obtained 48.28% of the votes, followed by Solidarity (SDD) with 21.96%, Avanzar (AVZ) with 16.02% and lastly the Movimiento Gremial (MG) with 13. 74%.
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This after elections that had a low quorum on the first day of voting, where only 27% of the total number of students participated, something unusual within the university and well below the 50% participation required in the voting of the Catholic University. .
For the same reason, from the FEUC they made a call to go to the polls, adding that “this year, in the framework of the first face-to-face elections after two years of pandemic, and the suspension of the 2019 elections due to the social outbreak, the FEUC , and with it the entire university policy of the country, is facing the possibility of suffering one of the biggest defeats in its history”.
Finally, a participation of more than 50% was achieved, so the preliminary results remain to be ratified.
In addition, it is worth remembering the controversy prior to the voting, when during a debate the candidate for president of the FEUC for the MG (right-wing movement founded by Jaime Guzmán) Lucía Uriarte, referred to the coup in a comparison with the social outbreak , indicating that the latter was “more disastrous” than the dictatorship.
“Let’s see, what happened on September 11 was a division at the country level. But finally what happened on October 18 was that the violence reached the streets. The violence took hold of the people,” said Uriarte.
