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Juan Luis Gandía Wins Universitat de València Rector Runoff

The finance scholar enters a single six-year, non-renewable mandate under Spain's new university law.

Overview

  • The university’s official count gave him 58.58% of the weighted vote to Ángeles Solanes’s 41.41%.
  • Turnout was 17.81%, with 10,316 ballots cast from an electorate of 57,920.
  • He prevailed in all five electoral colleges in the university’s weighted universal suffrage system.
  • He becomes the first rector from the Campus de Tarongers and the first professor from the Faculty of Economics to hold the post.
  • The result was proclaimed in the Aula Magna of the Rectorate, where both candidates addressed attendees.