It is expected that this year there will be a race for two. student elections. After last year’s sharp struggle for the winner of the elections DAP-NDFC And CNE won first place in the race for this year’s student elections, which are scheduled for Wednesday, May 10.

In particular, the Interfactional Council decided to hold student elections this year in the first decade of May, two weeks after the students returned to the classroom after a two-week Easter vacation. The two factions that clashed last year are already on the campaign trail and the fight will be tough.

In particular, although it has become the norm for student factions to give different results, but not a ranking, last year this too was called into question. KNE stated that it was the first time that “students sent a message so clear that no one can take it to heart” while DAP-NDFK put itself first, claiming that “at the time As in previous years, Panspudasti (KKE), along with all other factions, participated in the vast majority of student associations, this year it created its own associations and organized separate polls. In a large number of schools where two electoral processes were taking place simultaneously. One of the official student associations where DAP-NDFC also participated, and one of the ghost student associations founded by the PCS either alone or with the crutches of the extra-parliamentary left.”

This year, DAP-NDFK, in its first announcement since the election date was set, said that “another year of DAP-NDFK with its proposals, actions and interventions has been ‘here for every student’.” He was here for the new generation, for working students, for financially weak students and their day to day problems, while in general he was a helper in the smoothness of academic daily life. He listened to their voice, adapted to the needs of the time, proposed and provided solutions. But more than that, he defended those voices. All these voices that strive for a modern and progressive university in practice, all those whose common vision is a university that accommodates all, not a few. All these voices that some would like to silence in the Greek halls, but in fact they represent the majority. Against ideologies, against egalitarianism.

For its part, the CNE believes that this year’s student elections, as they are organized 10 days before the national elections, represent “the first big ‘poll’ of young people, a mass condemnation of the government’s policies, dangerous, anti-popular policies.” , one might say, which crushes the learning, life and dreams of a new generation and has been implemented by all governments to date. Intensify the fighting and defend the rights of students in their studies and life, to what they need.

Little involvement

However, there is a need to increase participation in student elections, which has fallen by about 50,000 students in recent years to a total of 264,000 active students according to the latest data from the Hellenic Statistical Office.