AFTER a week of voting, the results of Canterbury Christ Church University
Silvia Rasca, 22, was announced as Student Union President when Dave Gilmore, a representative of the National Union of Students, read out the winning positions to the eager candidates.
Other winners included Joan Bartson-Umuliisa as Vice President (Education and Welfare), Anca Popescu as Vice President (Student Activities) and Matthew Power as Vice President (Sports).
Miss Rasca currently holds the position of Vice President (Education and Welfare). She said this gave her a good starting point to aim for President as she’s already done a lot for the university but wants to do more.
“I am very pleased to be elected and I was ecstatic at the time,” she said. “The most pleasing thing is that students believed in me and my policies and they acknowledged the need for continuity. I am planning on keeping the good relationship with university staff and working together for the benefit of students. I’m so pleased to have an entirely new team; it should be highly beneficial to the Union .”
Candidates were campaigning in the weeks leading up to the elections results day and the Student Union building was covered in posters and banners. Ellie Martin, one of the election organisers, said there was a “constant buzz” throughout the whole week of elections. She said: “As soon as voting opened people were coming through the door and they just didn’t stop.”
“There was such a positive atmosphere among everyone and all the candidates campaigned really hard to convince people to vote for them. We were really pleased with the turn out and we had a lot more votes than last year.”
It was reported that over 1,400 votes were cast but with the different positions and many candidates going for them, organisers had to sort through nearly 21,000 ballot slips. This took just under eight hours and the results were announced straight after.
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