Overview
- Garcés won the University of Valladolid runoff on Thursday with 52.57% of the vote, defeating Carmen Camarero on 42.73% as blank ballots reached 4.7%.
- She will take office on May 20 and begin a single six-year term under the LOSU reform that changed rector mandates.
- Turnout at Valladolid fell to about 19%, with especially low student participation, which matters because votes are weighted by sector rather than counted one by one.
- At the Universidade de Vigo, a second-round vote on Friday set Carmen García Mateo against Belén Rubio to pick the school’s first woman rector, with results pending after a midday dip in participation led by administrative staff.
- In Vigo’s weighted system, permanent faculty hold 51% of the vote and García Mateo edged that bloc by one weighted ballot in round one, so where Jacobo Porteiro’s 25.8% support goes could decide the final result.