An electoral college made up of 2.150 teachers, 7.756 technical-administrative employees and 28.838 students chooses between this Wednesday and Thursday (15th and 16th), in the first round, the new rector of Unicamp, who will serve a four-year term (2017- 2021). Five candidates participate in the process - professors Marcelo Knobel, Luís Alberto Magna, Léo Pini Magalhães, Antonio Fonseca and Rachel Meneguello. The Community Consultation for Rector Succession will be by nominal and secret vote, collected through a traditional paper system.
Five voting locations were defined. On the Barão Geraldo campus, the polls will be at the Paulistão Amphitheater (from 9 am to 20:30 pm for teachers and students and from 6 am to 20:30 pm only for technical-administrative employees) and at the Multidisciplinary Gymnasium (from 9 am to 20:30 pm). In Limeira, the points are Campus I – Faculty of Technology and Cotil (from 9am to 20:30pm) and Campus II – Faculty of Applied Sciences (from 9am to 20:30pm). In Piracicaba, the voting location is the Faculty of Dentistry of Piracicaba (from 9am to 17pm).
To check the voting location, the voter simply needs to enter the General Secretariat (SG) page and enter your registration number on a specific form. To be able to vote, members of the university community will have to present a photo ID. Entry and distribution of propaganda material at voting locations will not be permitted, nor will polls be held in an area demarcated by the Consultation Organization Committee (15 meters from voting locations).
If none of the candidates obtains an absolute majority of votes (50% + 1) in the first round, there will be a need for a second round, which is scheduled for March 29th and 30th. The inauguration of the new rector will take place on April 19. Once the consultation process is over, a list will be drawn up with the names of the three candidates who received the most votes in the first round and, if there is a second round, the list will include the names of the two competitors in this stage, in voting order, plus the third placed candidate in the first round. shift. The document will be forwarded to the University Council (Consu), which will later forward it to the governor of the State of São Paulo, responsible for appointing the rector.
The counting of votes for the first round will be carried out shortly after the arrival of the ballot boxes at the Multidisciplinary Gymnasium, on the 16th. Consu deliberation, the result will be announced by the Consultation Organizing Committee (COC) within a maximum period of 48 hours after the end of voting.
