BUSU legal fight gets June court date
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This article was published 05/05/2020 (1978 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The first court hearing for the ongoing battle over the Brandon University Students’ Union’s February elections will take place June 22, according to Manitoba’s online court registry system.
Last year’s president, Olusola Akintola, and his wife Janet are going to court to have their election wins ratified after the union’s council declined to do so after an investigation into election irregularities.
No winners were declared in the races for president and vice-president internal after multiple allegations of intimidation were made against a candidate and discrepancies in the number of votes tallied were discovered.
In a letter sent to BUSU by its legal counsel last week, of which a copy was sent to the Sun by Olusola, lawyer Stephen Beernaert cautioned that the course of action taken by the BUSU council was not permitted by law and complicated by the non-cooperation of the election’s returning officer in its investigations.
Beernaert advised that BUSU had two possible options: to ratify the election results, which he said was the safest course to take, or to complete a full investigation into the election, which may not work given the time frame and the fact that the council’s term ended at the end of April.
“At a bare minimum, the president-elect and vice-president elect should be invited to make submissions to council as to why the election results should be ratified,” he wrote.
“They should also be given disclosure of the case against them (i.e. the complaints). While this is not in accordance with the bylaws, it provides a minimum level of due process at least.”
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