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| courtesy of the National Union of Students |
And here we are at the end of another very
important, yet long day at the NUS National Conference. Today was probably the most important day of
the entire conference since it was the start of elections. The first election of the day was the biggie
of them all: President of the National Union of Students. This role is the leader of the union, the person
who represents us as students in all matters.
They become the face of the union, so it's very important for us guys to
carefully chose this role. After
listening to all of the manifestos from candidates, and a very tense half hour
whilst the votes were counted (wherein we all dashed for the nearest coffee
machine), the Conference decided with a landslide victory to re-elect the
incumbent President, Toni Pearce. All
this excitement, and we haven't even had lunch!!
Other seats were contested throughout the
day, including the Vice-Presidents for both Further and Higher Education (VPFE
and VPHE), and the Vice-Presidents for Welfare, Society and Citizenship, and
Union Development. For all of the FE
students, the new VPFE is incumbent Joe Vinson, whilst the HE students elected
Megan Dunn as their new VPHE. VP Welfare
was another new election, in the form of Colum McGuire, along with Piers
Telemacque for VP Society and Citizenship and Raechel Mattey for VP Union
Development.
All in all it was a very exciting day, all
culminating with some heated debates on the representation of women in both
Leadership and Delegates of the Conference and Union as a whole. This resulted in the passing of a motion that
insists all Delegations sent to the Conference must contain at least 50% female
delegates. All in all a very exciting
and interesting second day! :D
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