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The rector of the University of Murcia (UMU), José Orihuela, said today, November 24, that he will not stand for re-election in office.

It has been advanced at the end of the Governing Council that has been developed throughout the morning and until early afternoon in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, in the Espinardo campus.

Precisely in this session of the governing body of the UMU the calendar for the rector and cloister elections has been approved, which will begin on December 4 with the exhibition of the electoral census.

The deadline for submitting candidatures will be from January 29, 2018 to the following February 5, while voting has been scheduled for March 6.

If there was a need to attend a second round in the election of the rector, the vote would take place on March 15, while the final proclamation would be on the 22nd of the same month.

By announcing that he will not opt ​​for the position again, a decision that he has ensured is well thought out and that he took it recently, Orihuela has made a brief assessment of what he considers to have been the main achievements of his administration, and which has materialized in the calls for places, increase of the funds destined to the investigation and to scholarships, and others.

He also referred to today precisely, in this same session, had just approved the preliminary budget of the UMU for the next financial year, which amounts to 215.5 million euros, with an increase of 0.74 percent with respect to the current year.

Finally, the rector has asked all candidates to succeed him in maintaining "a defense so committed, at least, to our legitimate rights and positioning in front of our authorities."

In another order of things, the Governing Council has approved the work schedule of this institution, as well as the proposal to give the name of the official Isabel Guillen, recently deceased, to the training room of the Hemeroteca of the campus of La Merced.

Source: Universidad de Murcia