Overview
- UNLP is holding student elections from Wednesday to Friday across 17 faculties with about 217,000 eligible voters to renew student centers, choose a Superior Council representative and elect five faculty councilors per school.
- Outcomes at UNLP will shape dean selections next year and influence the June 2026 Assembly that chooses the university president, with academic vice president Fernando Tauber reported as the only declared contender seeking a third term.
- Franja Morada contests most UNLP faculties as Peronist and left groups run fragmented slates, while libertarian lists expand to six faculties under two banners, potentially shifting vote splits.
- UNLP’s five-student-councilor rule grants three seats to the winner and two to minorities only if they pass 20 percent, a threshold that can deliver all seats to the top list when fields fracture.
- UNL has begun roughly 100 elections to form faculty councils, the Superior Council and the Assembly that will pick the 2026–2030 rector and vice rector, as Laura Gutiérrez is elected dean of Chemical Engineering—the first woman to lead that faculty—with local reporting pointing to two potential women in the rector race.