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Emblematic university to name its new student leader this week, and five of the eight candidates endorse free education, a reform that has defined this year’s presidential race.
This week, Universidad de Chile students will choose between eight candidates for the leadership of FECh — the student federation which has helped position free higher education at the heart of debate between presidential hopefuls ahead of Nov. 17’s general election.
Students will cast ballots Monday and Tuesday in one round of voting which will see the relative majority candidate assigned FECh leader. With five of the eight candidates in support of free university education, this week’s vote will decide if FECh will continue in support of a reform it has spearheaded onto the national stage for the past three years. Last Thursday, Universidad Católica students elected free education advocate Naschla Aburman to lead its similarly prominent federation FEUC.
Boasting levels of exposure uncommon in student figures of other countries, leaders from both federations helped ignite the student movement which has maintained national attention since 2011. That year, former FECh leader Camila Vallejo and then FEUC leader Giorgio Jackson achieved international prominence for their activism. Both are now running for deputy positions in this year’s parliamentary elections — Vallejo for the Communist Party (PC) and Jackson for the newly-formed Democratic Revolution (RD).
In a close election in 2012, Vallejo narrowly lost a reelection bid to Gabriel Boric of the the Izquierda Autónoma (AI), a leftist movement which criticized Vallejo for her links to the PC, and sought to broaden the student movement to engage with wider social struggles. The coalition spearheaded by the AI won reelection again in 2013 under Andrés Fielbaum.
- http://santiagotimes.cl
This week, Universidad de Chile students will choose between eight candidates for the leadership of FECh — the student federation which has helped position free higher education at the heart of debate between presidential hopefuls ahead of Nov. 17’s general election.
Students will cast ballots Monday and Tuesday in one round of voting which will see the relative majority candidate assigned FECh leader. With five of the eight candidates in support of free university education, this week’s vote will decide if FECh will continue in support of a reform it has spearheaded onto the national stage for the past three years. Last Thursday, Universidad Católica students elected free education advocate Naschla Aburman to lead its similarly prominent federation FEUC.
Boasting levels of exposure uncommon in student figures of other countries, leaders from both federations helped ignite the student movement which has maintained national attention since 2011. That year, former FECh leader Camila Vallejo and then FEUC leader Giorgio Jackson achieved international prominence for their activism. Both are now running for deputy positions in this year’s parliamentary elections — Vallejo for the Communist Party (PC) and Jackson for the newly-formed Democratic Revolution (RD).
In a close election in 2012, Vallejo narrowly lost a reelection bid to Gabriel Boric of the the Izquierda Autónoma (AI), a leftist movement which criticized Vallejo for her links to the PC, and sought to broaden the student movement to engage with wider social struggles. The coalition spearheaded by the AI won reelection again in 2013 under Andrés Fielbaum.
- http://santiagotimes.cl
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