Heart attack on the eve of the second round of the elections to the Rectorate of the Complutense University of Madrid. The dean of the Faculty of Politics, Esther del Campo, a candidate from the left and close to Unidas Podemos, has agreed with the failed candidate from the right, the former vice-chancellor Iñaqui López, and with two others to take control of the face-to-face campus largest in Spain.
The pact reached this Thursday between all of them, to which EL MUNDO has had access, is called “Agreement for change” and aims to unseat the current rector, Joaquín Goyache, winner of the elections in the first round with 24% of the votes . Four of the eight candidacies that presented themselves in the first round have come together and have agreed on a program and a government team. If Del Campo, who obtained 18.15% of the votes in the first round, wins next Wednesday, Iñaqui López, a professor of Business Organization, would become the vice-rector for Economic Policy. All the sources consulted place him as “the candidate of the right”.
María Castro, former Andradista and fourth force (with 16.2% of the votes), would become Vice-Rector for Academic Planning, while Jesús Pérez Gil, supported by the scientific sector (10% of the votes), would He would become the Vice Chancellor for Research.
This alliance would lead Del Campo to win the elections with the majority of support, if the same results as in the first round are repeated. The relationship of the Dean of Politics with the emeritus leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, is well known: he is a member of the Central Electoral Board at the proposal of the purple party and works hand in hand with it in the Department of Political Science and Administration, where the former vice-president of the Government has achieved an associate position. She also introduced Iglesias when he returned to the university to give a talk in March 2020, which was boycotted by a group of students. She and she became known after vetoing an act where the opponent of Chavismo Leopoldo López was going to intervene.
“We want a Complutense that we can be proud of, with leadership capacity, agile, ambitious and that looks to the future,” proclaims the agreement, which will be presented this Friday at the university’s Faculty of Chemical Sciences.
Among their proposals, they propose “to ensure and expedite the promotion of teachers, especially non-permanent ones, in view of the imminent implementation of the LOSU”, a measure that reveals the lack of foresight of the Organic Law of the Government’s University System .
They also promise to “eliminate the unnecessary requirements that the UCM demands for the promotion and stabilization of the Teaching and Research Staff”, “de-bureaucratize the procedures associated with research management”, “regularize and make transparent the processes of promotion, mobility and stabilization of the Administration and Services Staff” or “facilitate student initiatives, setting up their own spaces for the development of a university life beyond the classroom”.
Other commitments are to increase internationalization, “maintain budgetary stability within a framework of negotiation with the Community of Madrid”, “make the most of and modernize the available spaces to dedicate them to the needs of students, PDI and PAS” and “launch a comprehensive campus plan that addresses sustainability, mobility and improvement of infrastructures and services”.
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