Estel Oleart’s candidacy wins elections to CEUAB’s Executive Committee

Candidacy A, led by Estel Oleart Mariné, won by 28 votes the elections for CEUAB’s Executive Committee against Candidacy B (“El teu CEUAB”), led by Gerard Sala Mayench, which got 11 votes.

18/12/2018

The candidacy led by Estel Oleart Mariné won elections for the CEUAB’s Executive Committee (Comissió Executiva del Consell d’Estudiants de la UAB) by 28 votes. Electoral campaign started on 1 December and ended on 9 December. Two candidacies were submitted, one led by Estel Oleart Mariné (candidacy A) and El teu CEUAB (candidacy B), led by Gerard Sala Mayench, which got 11 votes.

Electronic voting took place from 10 to 12 December. There were 48 votes in total, with 2 blank votes and 7 null votes. Participation this year was 90.5 %, a 24.5 % more than in last year’s elections.

Oleart’s candidacy wants to carry out an improvement on the model of public university, which they currently consider elitist, anti-democratic, privatized and based on scientism. Thus, their programme revolves around ‘the acknowledgement and full sovereignty of students as active agents’ to accomplish ‘a truly public and high-quality Catalan university system’.

Also, to solve the students’ ignorance on internal structures, the candidacy suggests organizing continuous trainings in the institutional field. They also ask the UAB’s Board of Trustees, “the body with real power”, to not allow access to people linked to companies or capital interests. In order to fight privatization, the winning candidacy roots for a critical education ‘made by everyone and for everyone’ and ‘at the service of social and human transformation instead of being at the market’s disposal’.

To make UAB more accessible, comfortable and safe, they propose a series of economic measures such as a 30 % discount on tuition fees, a balance in the prices of master studies and bachelor degrees and watching over the effective application of the protocol against sexist aggressions. They also demand university to promote defending freedom of speech, for it to take a stand against repression and for it to also demand freedom for political prisoners as well as the return of those who are exiled.

Winning candidacy:

Presidency: Estel Oleart Mariné
Secretariat: Albert Font Sancho
Treasury: Daniel Olivella Galindo
Vicepresidencies

Júlia Vañó i Boira
Laura Roger i Anglada
Guillem Rojano Borreguero
Oriol Carmona Sànchez

Further information:

Do you wish to know more about the winning candidacy? You can read the interview made to Estel Oleart’s candidacy in this link.

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If you need further information about the electoral process, you can contact Dinamització Comunitària by sending an e-mail to info.participacio@uab.cat