This week more than 300,000 qualified students in the 13 faculties of the UBA voted. The map remained as always: the Reformist Front dominated, Kirchnerism grew, the left survived. AND Freedom Advances once again confirmed that, in the largest public university in the country, it is practically non-existent.
The numbers of the ruling party are difficult to hide. We are freethe university group of LLA, barely managed to present lists in four of the thirteen faculties. In none of them did he obtain representative positions. His best result was in Engineeringwhere the 17% of the votes was enough to tie with Nueva Ingeniería—both aligned with reformism—but not to get even a representative on the board of directors. Towards the bottom, the percentages plummet: in Economic Sciences they did not exceed 7%in Medicine he 6% and in Social Sciences were left sixths with the 3.08%even below Vilma Ripoll’s MST, which obtained 3.37%. In the remaining nine faculties, they did not show up at all. The balance was zero positions, zero centers and zero directors.
The paradox is remarkable. Javier Milei won the presidency with an extraordinary performance among young people, especially in the 18 to 30 year old segment. That support, however, does not translate to public universities, and this week’s election confirmed it once again. The contrast is even more striking when looking at the rest of the spectrum: all other forces grew or at least maintained their positions.
He Reformist Front —the alliance of radicals, non-Kirchnerist Peronists, socialists and independents— won nine of the thirteen facultieswith a historic result in Veterinary Medicine: after 28 consecutive years It displaced the left, which thus lost the only bastion it had left in the UBA. Kirchnerism consolidated its role as second force and The Campora It retained the centers of FADU, Exact Sciences and Philosophy and Letters. Even the Partido Obrero, despite losing Veterinary Medicine, maintained representation on several boards of directors. LLA was the only force that, in addition to falling far behind in the results, could not even compete in most of the venues.
The context does not favor the libertarian argument either. The elections were held in a climate marked by the budget conflict with the Government, cuts to student scholarships and the dispute over the University Financing Lawwhose application the Executive has been resisting. In this scenario, the university campus was, once again, hostile territory for the ruling party.
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