To kick off CUSA’s 2020 election campaigning period, the Charlatan is bringing you full coverage of the candidates campaigning to be Carleton University Students’ Association (CUSA) executives and councillors. 

Each CUSA executive position has at least two candidates vying for the job, with the vice-president (internal) position seeing the most competition, with three candidates. You can find the Charlatan‘s pre-election poll here.

This year’s total of 13 executive candidates is a slight increase compared to the 12 candidates who ran in 2019.

Amid student concerns about CUSA’s slate system, the CUSA 2020 election has also seen a decline in slates—with only one slate currently competing for students’ votes. In the past decade, the only other election to see one slate was in 2018.

For the first time, over half of the executive candidates, seven out of 13, are running independently.

The only CUSA elections to see just one slate run are 2018 and 2020. [Infographic by Jillian Piper]
The candidacy for CUSA councillor positions has seen a decline from last year, with only 16 candidates running, compared to last year’s 26. In each faculty, more candidates are needed to fill all of the vacant positions.

Going into the campaigning period of the CUSA 2020 election, there is currently no student running for the Special Student councillor position—leaving the position without a student representative.

Here’s a complete list of CUSA 2020 election candidates, according to the chief electoral officer:

Executive Positions

President

Vice-president (finance)

Vice-president (community engagement)

Vice-president (student issues)

Vice-president (internal)

Vice-president (student life)

Councillor Positions

Faculty of Public Affairs (7 positions)

  • Femi Joelle Dadjo
  • Saleh Abdelghany
  • Houlaymatou “Halima” Diallo
  • Liam Lowe
  • Victory Anthony-Nted
  • Jordan Vecchio

Faculty of Engineering and Design (6 positions)

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (6 positions)

  • Pierce Burch
  • Kieran Lacroix
  • Marina Gudagnin

Faculty of Science (4 positions)

The Sprott School of Business (2 positions)

Special Student (1 position)

Editor’s note: The name initially provided to the Charlatan for Abdelrahman Salama is not the name that will appear on the ballot. The candidate’s mention has been change to Salama’s preferred name, Abdo Ethar Salama. The Charlatan regrets the error.

Featured image from file.

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