CHAPTER XII

ARTICLE 83. The election of representatives to the management bodies, oversight and representation union, namely: General Congress, General Council of Representatives, Executive Committee, Commissions Autonomous Monitoring, Contractual Joint Commissions, and National Council Review Commission Representatives, shall be made based on the principle of proportionality under the following general rules:

a) The election process will be undertaken by vote universal, secret and direct, as expressed in polls, with the exceptions contained in this chapter.

b) Candidates shall be in forms other than the election one representative, in which case they will be elected obtains the largest number of votes.

c) There will be roll call and will be noted the percentage that each of the sheets obtained.

d) All forms that derive at least twenty percent of the votes cast shall be entitled to a specified number charges, except as noted in subparagraphs e) and f) of this article. Votes cast means the sum the award to each of the forms contenders.

e) The minority or form may not have the same number charges that form the majority, ie the majority form automatically be assigned fifty percent plus one of the charges except as provided in paragraph f) of this article.

f) When the number of representatives is even, the template minority may only take the same number of representatives majority if the form gets more than forty-five percent of the votes cast.

g) Where there is doubt about the appropriate number of seats each form, apply the criterion of largest remainder consisting to allocate the charge for the form which has received more half the percentage required for each position.

h) Determine the number of charges corresponding to both the as to form a majority or minority, will follow the following procedure:

1. In all cases the forms will cover the charges according the order of registration of candidates.

2. The majority will return priority to occupy the number corresponding portfolio according to descending order are placed the charges.

3. Done the above, the template that is first among Minority proceed accordingly, taking the number portfolio that corresponds cover from the last one sheet covered the majority and so on, shall proceed with the remaining sheets have obtained the right to a number given of objections to where they reach.

i) In elections of Delegates to Congress and the General Council Representatives, will observe the following rules:

1. The proportionality principle is applied separately to academic and administrative sectors.

2. Voting to elect these representatives shall be made with separate ballots and ballot boxes, one for its administrative and other for academics.

3. All members of the Union to appear on the register, or had been affiliated at least 60 days before the date the vote and those who, having taken on trust have completed three years of membership of the Union will right to cast a ballot in any of the polls, depending on the sector they belong, to elect representatives of their respective sector.

4. The administrative members shall be representatives of academics and vice versa, until such time as the Union settled overall sector structure.

j) To take responsibility for the organization and implementation the electoral process, the General Council or the Assembly of Representatives borough, as the case may elect from among its members an Electoral College, which will be integrated into an odd number and under the principle of proportionality. This body will depend at all times of the body that appointed him, being responsible and responding to it in its management.

k) The members of the Electoral College, by the nature of his office, can not simultaneously be candidates or proselytizing by any form.

l) Each form may appoint a representative to the College Electoral person shall be entitled to be heard, to bring dissatisfaction and to receive resources based response to them; to be present at the vote in the ballot and sign the corresponding tally sheets, leaving at liberty to proselytize for your return on the same terms as other Union members. These representatives shall not be part of Electoral College.

m) Election Commissions borough and union representatives Mixed Contract in the subcommittees will be held during the election of delegates to the General Council of Representatives, and this instance, the invitation will include relevant list of these committees and subcommittees and the number of the members of each, according to the established by the Regulation of Contractual Joint Commissions, the Commissions Statutory and the statute itself.

n) Once elected the electoral colleges, will be held training them by the competent authorities.

ARTICLE 84. The Trade Union Congress Delegates will elected by the delegations in terms of the this Statute. The election process will be implemented as follows:

a) The summons shall be issued by the General Council of Representatives with thirty days prior to the date of the Congress.

b) The Executive Committee, the Commission Autonomous Surveillance and a committee of the General Council of Representatives will faith of the election process.

c) Each form will as many delegates as appropriate to percentage of votes it obtains in accordance with the criteria identified Article 83.

ARTICLE 85. The representatives of various delegations to General Council of Representatives is proportionally by the majority and the minority that have arisen in the election, so that their representation is directly related to the percentage obtained in each vote and in accordance with the number of delegates to the Delegation is entitled. The election process will be out in the terms established in Article 83.

ARTICLE 86. The Executive Committee shall be elected Union by direct, secret and universal ballot of the members thereof, according to the call launched by the General Council of Representatives 45 days before the date of the election.

I. The electoral process will be held on the following basis:

a) The General Council of Representatives shall elect an Electoral College, in the terms and powers of parts j), k) and l) of Article 83. Autonomous Surveillance Commission take all appropriate measures to enforce the provisions of this statute and the sanctity of the vote.

b) The Electoral College will receive the standard where they appear the names of all Union members.

c) The registration of the forms will be held at the College Elections in the Union offices, during the fortnight working after the date of issuance of the notice.

d) The registration shall be in writing with signature of acceptance of candidates, append a agenda. Applicants must meet requirements statutory that are required to be a member of the Executive Committee. Each return must submit a complete list of candidates to cover all the Ministries, the application must have a name, logo, slogan and colors of the template to be used during the election campaign. Once registered a first template, you can use any other name, logo, colors or slogan. Also the forms should ensure that at least 30 percent of its candidates are women, failure to comply with the latter requirement shall not be grounds to invalidate registration of the template.

e) Once registered spreadsheets combinations may not be or mergers between them.

f) The electoral propaganda should refrain from using insults, slander or anything that impairs the union or any other situation concerning the personality of the candidates and forms, thus damaging the prestige and image of STUNAM.

g) The Electoral College will need all the help bodies and members of the Union to fulfill its function.

h) In each agency will install a shrine, in the presence of the accredited representatives of each form and in the custody Delegates to the General Council of Representatives. The electoral process last two days.

i) The ballot boxes will be installed at six hours of election day, closing the vote to the twenty-two hours. After the vote in each day, there will be the quantification of votes, the minutes will rise for the Delegates and representatives of contending forms (one part per each of the days of voting, plus a final the second) in any case, the records shall show the result scrutiny and comments of the electoral process. Shifts special on weekends and holidays, and and night and will vote in two days or hours, preferably prior to polling day outlined in the call.

j) The minutes and the package will focus on the last election day at the offices of the union, where the Electoral College perform global computation, taking the record concerned.

k) Each voter shall be identified to the satisfaction of the heads of each urn, which will verify that your name appears on the register. Ballots, under any circumstances may be foliated or marked.

l) The cases will be resolved not provided by the Electoral College with the approval of the Commission Autonomous Surveillance and if necessary with the final determination of the Council General Representative in his capacity as supreme authority association between Congress and Congress.

II. In the election shall observe the following rules:

a) In general it will be as stated in Article 83 of this Statute.

b) Once the vote is taken note of the percentage each sheet obtained.

c) Each sheet that has obtained at least twenty percent the vote is entitled to a number of ministries as directed by the percentage who obtained the vote, for that matter, be taken into account the decreasing order of the Secretariats list established under this Statute.

d) Only secretaries are entitled to have those forms they reach at least twenty percent of the votes cast.

e) The minority or form having reached at least twenty percent of the votes entitled to hold as many secretariats as directed by the percentage, the rest of the secretariats be covered by the majority form.

f) obtaining or form minority, may not never have an equal number of Ministries that the template majority.

g) The Secretariats will be covered in all cases for candidates to appear at the top of the lists. In the case of the Ministry of Action for Women, it will always be held by a woman, when in appropriate placement order you place a man, the first woman candidate in this template swap places with it.

h) If after the counting of the vote and even before the inauguration of the Executive Committee shall submit resignations of one or more of the candidates chosen, instead the General Council of Representatives shall designate a substitute or provisionally, who will be ratified or not in Congress General immediately.

i) When the elected Executive Committee is composed of more than one of the participants payroll, to ensure role as a true collegial body, shall provide the General Council of Representatives and plan a program single labor normen his performance.

ARTICLE 87. The independent oversight committees, will be elected each year in the Regular General Congress, economic voting delegates for the same, subject in general, the criteria contained in Article 83.

ARTICLE 88. The election of delegates to the General Congress National Organization of Trade Unions University, will be out in the General Council of Representatives STUNAM. In general it will be as stated in Article 83.

ARTICLE 89. The election of delegates to the National Council Representatives of the National University of Trade Unions, be held at the General Council Representatives attending to the criteria mentioned in Article 83. Temporality thereof shall be subject to the Statute establishing National Organization of Trade Unions University.

ARTICLE 90. Contract Committees are elected each three years in the General Council of Representatives, following the election of the Executive Committee.

ARTICLE 91. Representatives to the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration shall be elected every two years in the General Council of Representatives.