LOW TURNOUTS continued to plague the NUS elections last week, with only 3% of students turning up to have their vote counted.
Twenty delegates were elected for the Annual NUS conference which will be taking place in April, at which the controversial governance review will be discussed.
Around half of those elected are opposing the governance review, which will be discussed at the conference, having already been debated at the Extraordinary NUS conference last year.
Around five of the elected delegates are thought to be planning to break union policy and vote for the proposed governance review.
The conference will take place in Blackpool at the beginning of April. The result of the vote will be key in deciding whether or not the governance review will be passed.
"Planning to break union policy"...
The "Save NUS Democracy" motion was passed via Union Council, not General Meeting, so it's not Union policy, it's a 'directive'. Still, the resolves of the directive are not binding on our NUS delegation because everyone who intends to vote contray to the directive already mentioned it on their manifesto (M.5.3b). And in the event of anyone not fulfilling voting requirements (M.5.2) from General Meeting of Council, then the constitution is typically useless and doesn't determine what to do with them.
So essentially they aren't breaking Union policy (as it's not a policy), and they're not violating the constitution, but even if they were there's not much anyone could do about it.
Though I'm quite sure nobody cares.