THE ELECTION OF THE COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STUDENT UNION OF LAUREA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

Student union of Laurea University of Applied Sciences will have the election of the Council of Representatives on 2nd to 9th of November.

In the election 15 members and 15 deputy members amongst student union members will be selected to comprise the Council of Representatives for the year 2023. The main operational language of the Council is Finnish, but if needed English will be used. Elections are held electronically from 2nd to 9th of November.

All members, who have paid their membership fees for the academic year 2022-2023 or fall semester 2022 before 12pm on 12th of October are eligible to be candidates. Candidates form electoral alliances consisting of 1‐15 candidates. All alliances need to have a spokesperson who can also be from outside of the alliance. Spokesperson fills out the electoral alliance establishing form and every candidate fills a candidate form. Electoral alliances can form electoral coalitions that consist of a maximum of 30 candidates. All coalitions need to have a spokesperson who fills out the electoral coalition establishing form. All candidate forms and establishing forms must be filled electronically before 12pm on 12th of October.

Members, who have paid their membership fees at the latest at 12pm on 24th of October, are entitled to vote.

The central election committee will verify the electoral register (the list of voters) in a meeting on Oct 24th. The list can be checked at the office of the student union at the Tikkurila campus of Laurea UAS in room B507 from 25th of October until the end of the election only by booking an appointment beforehand. You can do that by sending an email to [email protected].

Claims for corrections to the electoral register must be made in writing to the Central Election Committee to address [email protected] at the latest 31th of October before 12 pm.

All documents needed for the election can be found from student union’s offices on request and from the student union’s webpage and requested from [email protected]

With electoral regards,
Jenna Jourio
President
Central Election Committee
[email protected]