Electoral Tribunal RM Annuls Election of Rodrigo Vidal as Rector of the Usach and Orders New Suffrages - La Tercera

Although it happened in 2022, on Thursday the entity sentenced that the house of studies should call for a new election process after accepting the challenge presented by more than 20 academics, who denounced that the irregular exclusion of more than 2,000 teachers from the electoral register.

The First Electoral Tribunal of the Metropolitan Region declared null and void the election of rector of the University of Santiago de Chile (Usach) held in July 2022, ordering the dismissal of the academic Rodrigo Vidal Rojas and the holding of new elections.The cancellation of the election process occurs after a group of 23 academics, several of whom were hourly professors, decided to challenge Vidal's triumph on the grounds that more than 2,0…

During the last hours it was announced that the First Electoral Tribunal (TER) of the Metropolitan Region annulled the election of the rector of the University of Santiago (Usach), Rodrigo Vidal. Thus, after three years of coming to office, a new election must be made to elect the highest authority of the state university. According to the precedents revealed by Radio Biobío, the university professors accused an exclusion in the electoral regist…

The cancellation of the election process comes after a group of 23 academics, several of whom were hourly professors, decided to challenge Vidal's triumph on the grounds that more than 2,000 academics had been irregularly excluded from the electoral roll.