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Joaquín Goyache, the rector of the Complutense University of Madrid, revalidates his mandate and will be in office six more years after winning on Wednesday the elections in the second round to the dean of the Faculty of Politics, Esther del Campo, the candidate close to Unidas Podemos. This professor of Animal Health has managed to resist despite the burden that the management of Covid-19 has caused him, the controversy over the institution's tribute to Isabel Díaz Ayuso, his management of the reputational crisis due to the macho chants in the Elías Ahuja residence hall or the hiring as an associate professor of the former vice president of the Government Pablo Iglesias.

The veterinarian has won with 55% of the votes compared to 44% achieved by the political scientist, who aspired to be the first woman rector of the Complutense. The candidate, who claimed not to be right-wing but was responsible for the recognition of Ayuso, has obtained 56% of the votes among the professors and full professors, who have a majority weight in the elections (53%). In return, the assistant doctors have punished him and given double the support to Del Campo, because they consider that he has imposed many requirements in his stabilization process, compared to other universities.

Part-time professors and researchers (65% of the votes) and administrative and service staff have also been supporters of Goyache, although with less enthusiasm (48% compared to 43% who supported the dean). The students' vote has also been very close. With 89% counted, 50% are counted for Goyache and 47% for Del Campo.

Goyache had made a low-profile campaign, without any presence on the social network Twitter, and threatened by the last-minute pact that Del Campo forged with three of the eight candidates who, in total, presented themselves to the elections in the first round. Through this alliance materialized last Thursday – called the Frankenstein pact by its detractors – the failed candidate of the right, Iñaqui López, was integrated into the candidacy of Del Campo, to whom the dean promised a future position of economic vice rector of the campus (as she had before leaving Goyache, in the middle of the crisis for the recognition of Ayuso). The professor of Education María Castro and the researcher Jesús Pérez Gil had also joined this alliance.

But Goyache has been supported, in return, by the other three candidates (chemist Josefa Isasi, jurist Matilde Carlón and dean of Medicine, Javier Arias). The vote of the professors of faculties such as Law (where he has obtained the support of 90% of the holders and professors) and Medicine (75%), which are the largest, together with those of Dentistry and Optics, have oscillated the balance clearly in favor of the rector, despite the fact that the other candidacy has denounced irregular practices aimed at favoring him.

The National Police has identified on Wednesday the president of New Generations of the PP of Madrid, IgnacioDancausa, along with six other members of the organization, in the Faculty of Information Sciences for distributing propaganda, envelopes and ballots in favor of Goyache, and even placing a poster on campus, despite the fact that the electoral law prohibits doing this type of actions once the electoral campaign has ended.

It so happens that Dancausa, also president of the student association Freedom without anger, was one of the students who supported the Madrid president after being named an illustrious alumni in the same faculty where the Police found him yesterday.

Sources of the candidacy of Del Campo have denounced before the Electoral Board of the university posters in which it could be read "Voting for Esther de Campo is to allow Podemos to govern our university ideologically for the next six years", although the PP of Madrid has assured Europa Press that it has remained "totally respectful and alien to the electoral process".

A false message was also disseminated informing that the Faculty of Politics was closed due to a breakdown, so that students did not go to vote, and it was reported that several buses had been chartered from the Salamanca district to take students to the polls.

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