• Education Pablo Iglesias achieves the place in the Complutense in the same department as Monedero and Bescansa and with a very political court

Overturn of heart attack on the eve of the second round of the elections to the Rectorate of the Complutense University of Madrid. The dean of the Faculty of Politics, Esther del Campo, candidate of the left and close to Unidas Podemos, has agreed with the failed candidate of the right, the former vice-rector Iñaqui López, and with two others to take control of the largest face-to-face campus in Spain.

The pact reached this Thursday between all of them, to which EL MUNDO has had access, is called "Agreement for change" and aims to unseat the current rector, Joaquín Goyache, winner of the elections in the first round with 24% of the votes. Four of the eight candidacies that were presented in the first round have joined and have agreed on a program and a government team. If next Wednesday Del Campo wins, who obtained 18.15% of the votes in the first round, Iñaqui López, professor of Business Organization, would become the vice rector of Economic Policy. All the sources consulted place him as "the candidate of the right".

María Castro, former andradista and fourth force (with 16.2% of the votes), would become vice-rector of Academic Planning, while Jesús Pérez Gil, supported by the sector of scientists (10% of the votes), would become the vice-rector of Research.

This alliance would lead to Del Campo winning the elections with the majority of support, if the same results as in the first round are repeated. Known is the relationship of the dean of Politics with the emeritus leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias: she is a member of the Central Electoral Board at the proposal of the purple party and works hand in hand with it in the Department of Political Science and Administration, where the former vice president of the Government has achieved an associate position. He also introduced Iglesias when he returned to the university to give a talk, in March 2020, which was boycotted by a group of students. And it became known after vetoing an act where the opponent of Chavismo Leopoldo López was going to intervene.

"We want a Complutense of which we can be proud, with leadership capacity, agile, ambitious and that looks to the future," proclaims the agreement, which will be presented this Friday at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the university.

Among their proposals, they propose "to ensure and expedite the promotion of teachers, especially non-permanent teachers, before the imminent implementation of the LOSU", a measure that highlights the lack of foresight of the Organic Law of the University System of the Government.

They also promise to "eliminate the unnecessary requirements that the UCM requires for the promotion and stabilization of Teaching and Research Staff", "debureaucratize the procedures associated with research management", "regularize and make transparent the processes of promotion, mobility and stabilization of Administration and Services Personnel" or "facilitate student initiatives, enabling their own spaces for the development of a university life beyond the classrooms."

Other commitments are to increase internationalization, "maintain budgetary stability in a framework of negotiation with the Community of Madrid", "make the most of and modernize the available spaces to dedicate them to the needs of students, PDI and PAS" and "implement a comprehensive plan of the campuses that addresses sustainability, mobility and improvement of infrastructures and services".

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