By Jona Claire Turalde
It’s a split for next year’s College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) Student Council (SC), after BUKLOD CSSP (BUKLOD) and SALiGAN sa CSSP (SALiGAN) garnered almost an equal share of the 19 available posts in the April 21 SC polls.
CSSP students elected ten candidates from BUKLOD, eight from SALiGAN, one independent candidate for a department representative position.
Unopposed BUKLOD candidate and incumbent CSSP councilor Clarisse Peralta is the new CSSP SC chairperson, garnering 666 votes, while SALiGAN bet and incumbent Sociology Representative Jamievee Bautista, won as vice chair against BUKLOD’s Gabriela Zenia Sayon with 466 votes.
Meanwhile, SALiGAN candidate and incumbent Anthropology representative Lakan Ma. Mg. Umali is the next CSSP SC representative to the University Student Council (USC) with 565 votes.
SALiGAN secured four councilor seats and two of nine department representative seats, while BUKLOD won three councilor seats and six department representatives this year.
BUKLOD is affiliated with university-wide party UP Alyansa ng mga Mag-aaral para sa Panlipunang Katwiran at Kaunlaran (ALYANSA). Rival SALiGAN is a member organization of Students’ Alliance for the Advancement of Democratic Rights in UP (STAND UP).
A total of 57.64% or 1212 out of 2118 cast votes for this year’s CSSP elections.
Polling precincts opened at exactly 9AM in both Palma Hall and Alfredo Lagmay Hall. No glitches were reported. Lagmay Hall polling precinct closed at 5PM, while AS polling precincts closed at 7:00PM to accommodate late voters.
The complete list of election results follows:
Chairperson
Clarisse Anne Peralta (BUKLOD)- 666
Vice Chairperson
Jamievee Bautista (SALiGAN)- 466
CSSP Representative to the USC
Lakan Ma. Mg. Umali (SALIGAN)- 565
Councilors
Allyson Michael Jude Maraon (SALiGAN)- 561
Mariel Louise Cunanan (BUKLOD )- 544
Philippe Jefferson Galban (BUKLOD )- 530
Lorenzo Miguel Relente (BUKLOD )-
Maryam Hisham Casimiro (SALiGAN )- 515
Christine Faye Dumagan (SALiGAN )- 482
Hanceely Marxell Villa (SALiGAN )- 438
Department Representatives
Anthropology
Ileana Ysabel Cabochan (SALiGAN )- 78
Geography
Kimberly Go- Tian (BUKLOD )- 76
History
Alexandra Mojica (BUKLOD )- 64
Linguistics
Jan Irminelle Silvallana (BUKLOD )- 60
Philosophy
John Carlo Katigbak (Independent )- 91
Political Science
Ma. Regina Angelica Bagaforo (BUKLOD )- 141
Psychology
Patricia Kimberly Chua (BUKLOD )- 337
Jon Alec Eclipse (BUKLOD )- 296
Sociology
Jenica Jae De Vera (SALIGAN )- 125