CSU candidates disqualified

Six councilors and the only senate seat have been disqualified from the CSU 2012 general elections.

This adds to the previous allegations, disqualifications and confusion that characterized this year’s elections.

Acccording to the Link newspaper, CSU Chief Electoral Officer Ismail Holoubi said that the seven candidates were disqualified because they failed to submit their campaigning expense forms.

But Ramy Khoriaty, former CSU VP Finance & Clubs and one of the disqualified councilors, said none of the seven candidates had accumulated any expenses.

Article 222 of the CSU bylaws states that any candidates must submit this form within four days of the closing of polls even if there were no campaigning expenses.

The CEO had sent an email to all candidates with the form, but Khoriaty says the seven candidats felt like they have been misguided and did not know about this law.

Six of the seven disqualified candidates plan to appeal the decision to the Judicial Board, but have not yet met as a group.

The quorum can no longer be met at council meetings because of the disqualifications.

This poses many problems to the CSU, because therefore no decisions made are binding.

More details will be disclosed in the upcoming days, and the disqualified candidates might file complaints against the CEO.