THE COMMISSION on Elections of the College of Education will conduct a second round of special polls to install a local student council president, a post still vacant since the February 2014 elections, and a new external vice president.
“We will be having special elections for [the] presidency [with the] same process as the first special elections, but now, we’ve prepared getting-to-know and team building activities, so that the class presidents would know each other and be able to choose wisely,” Johanna Camille Liwanagan, Education Comelec chairperson, told the Varsitarian in an email.
The special poll will take place on July 28. The 240 class presidents in the college will choose from among themselves who will take the position.
Liwanagan said they would also elect a new external vice president after the resignation of Pauline Perez, who obtained a scholarship offer from the University of the Philippines.
Isaac Puyod, internal vice president and officer in charge of the Education Student Council, cannot assume the presidency because no president was elected in their local polls.
Lone presidential candidate Juan Carlo de la Paz of Aklas-Sakto party with 528 votes lost to an overwhelming 727 abstentions during the college-wide elections earlier this year. The local Comelec then conducted a special poll last March 8 among 25 class presidents, 16 of whom abstained from voting for unopposed candidate Krishma Kishore, Food Technology junior. Roberto A. Vergara Jr.
