Breaking News: SGA Election Results Released

Teresa Schuster / Asst. News Director

Following two days of elections, the SGA elections board released results for this year’s elections through an Instagram livestream.

The results are the following:

President & Vice President:

Alexander Rubido – President & Alexandra Ibarria – Vice President – The Future Is You

BBC Governor:

Brian Levine

Business Senators:

Alejandro Suarez

Rodrigo Alea – The Future Is You

Kristina Khudiakova – The Future Is You

Sergio Reyes – The Future Is You

Maria Paz Grijalba – The Future Is You

College of Arts, Science, and Education (CASE) Senators:

Tyler Lopez – The Future Is You

Valentina Casanova – The Future Is You

Christine Rubido – The Future Is You

Jordan Morejon Castelli – The Future Is You

Selina Mcfeeley – The Future Is You

Daniela Cruz – The Future Is You

Natalie Reymundo – The Future Is You

Gabriela Alvarez – The Future Is You

Communication, Architecture & the Arts (CARTA) Senators:

Ivette Suarez – The Future Is You

Gabriela Tovar – The Future Is You

Engineering & Computing Senators:

Cristhofer Lugo – The Future Is You

Natalie Meneses 

Hervangelot Lordeus – The Future Is You

Eduardo Gonzalez

Graduate Senators:

Joshua Mandall

Honors Senator:

Alexander Collado – The Future Is You

Hospitality Senator:

Celesse Temes – The Future Is You

Housing-MMC Senators:

Jacob Bharat

Sebastian Aviles – The Future Is You

Taylor Sokolosky – The Future Is You

School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA) Senators:

Sadie Testa-Secca – The Future Is You

Alexander Sutton – The Future Is You

David Luis 

Nursing & Health Sciences Senator:

Joshua Lovo-Morales – The Future Is You

Public Health & Social Work Senator:

Tyra Moss – The Future Is You

Upper Division-MMC Senators:

Nicholas Pastrana – The Future Is You

Marianne Ostos – The Future Is You

This year’s elections saw far fewer candidates than previous years’: 15 senate seats had no applicants and will be vacant following this year’s elections.

Candidates for the executive ticket, BBC governor, and 22 senate seats ran uncontested — over 70% of the 35 positions with applicants.

The only contested positions were Engineering and Computing Senator, where seven candidates ran for four seats, School of International and Public Affairs Senator, where eight candidates ran for three seats, and MMC Housing Senator, where four candidates ran for three seats.

This comes months after the merger between the student government councils at FIU’s Modesto Maidique Campus and Biscayne Bay Campus, which restructured SGA, eliminating some positions and creating others.

The merger was in response to high numbers of vacant SGA positions at BBC, and according to its proponents was intended to make SGA operate more efficiently.

This year, four out of seven positions housed at the BBC campus had no applicants. But unlike last year, many of the positions at MMC will also be vacant.

To fill the vacant seats, SGA’s senate will most likely appoint student applicants in the summer or fall 2021 terms.

This year, the only political party registered was The Future is You, which has been in power for the past two years. Of the senate candidates, 28 were affiliated with the party and 13 ran as independent candidates.

This year’s elections were relatively tame compared to last year’s, which saw numerous elections code violations and accusations hurled between candidates, parties, and students.

Only one elections code violation writ was filed, in which the elections board banned SIPA senator candidate Luis Moros from campaigning for 48 hours. Moros had promoted his candidacy through SGA’s Instagram account, violating two provisions of the election code that prohibit candidates from using SGA property or resources to promote their campaigns.

SGA elections were held virtually on March 30 and 31.