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Elections to the 69th Student Parliament
Elections to the 69th Student Parliament 2023
Welcome to the website for the elections to the Student Parliament of Saarland University.
The elections for the 69th Student Parliament of Saarland University will take place from June 19 to 23, 2023.
Communications of the election officer
Contact the election management
Election Officer: Dipl-Jur. Matthias M. Thielen
wahlleitung(at)stupa-wahl.de
Eligibility to vote and exercise of the right to vote
All students who are enrolled at Saarland University in the summer semester (deadline April 1, 2023) are eligible to vote. All eligible students are assigned to one constituency. Students enrolled in more than one major may apply to the election administration to change their assigned constituency.
Eligible voters may exercise their right to vote actively and passively. To exercise the active right to vote, votes must be cast at election times either electronically or by mail in accordance with the requirements of the election regulations.
The passive right to vote is exercised by standing as a candidate. For list or direct candidacy, a written application must be submitted to the election officer for the elections to the 69th Student Parliament of Saarland University.
For the elections to the 69th Student Parliament, election proposals can be submitted until June 2, 2023 (submission deadline).
Formulare
The forms require the use of Microsoft Word.
General and procedure of the election
The elections will take place in electronic form (internet-based online voting) from June 19 to 23, 2023.
The voting software uniWahl and the online voting system (OWS) of the external service provider Electric Paper will be used to conduct the 69th StuPa elections. Electronic voting by an eligible voter requires prior authentication via the UdS identifier (user ID and password). If you no longer have or know your login information, please contact the HIZ IT Service Desk (email: support@hiz-saarland.de).
Useful FAQs on the electronic voting process can be found below: Go to FAQs
The electronic voting option will start at 8 a.m. on June 19 and end at 3 p.m. on June 23.
Electronic voting can be done using the eligible voter's own terminal device (smartphone, PC, laptop, etc.). For more information, please visit the election website.
The Student Parliament elections elect the members of the 69th Student Parliament as well as the members of the 69th General Student Committee responsible for the Homburg campus. The Student Parliament consists of 33 members (Art. 7 para. 1 SdS with § 1 para. 2 WO-StuPa). Of these, 13 are elected based on direct election proposals in constituencies (majority election) and 20 according to list election proposals (proportional representation).
The elections take place in four constituencies:
- Constituency 1 (Faculty R and the Department of Economics of the Faculty HW).
Direct mandates: 3 - Constituency 2 (Faculty M)
Direct mandates: 2 - Constituency 3 (Faculty P and Faculty HW excluding the Department of Economics)
Direct mandates: 4 - Constituency 4 (Faculty MI, Faculty NT and Studienkolleg)
Direct mandates: 4
Wählerverzeichnis
The persons entitled to vote have been entered in the registers of eligible voters (electoral roll) as of the cut-off date (April 1, 2023). The electoral roll is created in electronic form from the official and current student statistics of the General Student Secretariat.
Every person entitled to vote has the right to inspect the electoral roll until May 29, 2023. Anyone who considers the electoral roll to be incorrect or inaccurate may raise objections to it with the election officer within this period.
Please note that only students who are listed in the electoral roll can vote in the election. Therefore, please check your eligibility to vote.
The request to inspect the electoral roll must be sent by e-mail to the election officer (wahlleitung@stupa-wahl.de). The request must include the surname, first name, date of birth and matriculation number of the person entitled to vote and the person making the request.
StuPa election briefly explained!
The Student Parliament (StuPa) is the highest body of the constituted student body. It consists of 33 members, 13 of whom are directly elected.
In general, it is the task of the student body (which is divided into student councils) to represent the professional, economic, cultural and social interests of the students, to take a stand on university policy issues, to promote the political, intellectual and artistic education of the students and to maintain university sports as well as national and international contacts.
While the student council represents in particular the subject-related interests of the students of a subject area, the StuPa is responsible for the following tasks in particular:
- The most important task of the parliament is the election and control of the General Student Committee (AStA).
- In addition to this, there are other important tasks for the "general" representation of the interests of the student body, such as the amendment of the statutes of the student body or the election of representatives in important bodies of the university.
The student body at Saarland University is a so-called constituted student body because its association is stipulated in the Saarland Higher Education Act (SHSG).
Section 83 of the SHSG states: "The students enrolled at the university form a legally responsible body of the university with the right of self-administration (student body).
To exercise this right of self-administration, bodies are to be established which represent the interests of the students within the scope of their self-administration competence. The organs of the student body are the student parliament, the general student committee and the council of elders. The right to vote for the organs of the student body is exercised in free, equal and secret elections according to the principles of personalized proportional representation.
With the election of the student parliament, you elect your representation of interests, which has to stand up for your concerns and interests! This includes, for example, the negotiation of the semester ticket and its implementation with the transport companies by the AStA appointed by the StuPa. As this example already shows, the election of the student parliament has a great influence on your studies and your possibilities as a student.
Therefore, use your right to vote!
The student body (i.e. all enrolled students) is initially divided into so-called student councils:
These student councils are elected separately from the student parliament within the framework of the so-called student council elections. They form your subject-specific representation of interests specifically for the course of study in which you are enrolled. Accordingly, only the students of the respective study program are eligible to vote for their student council. The student parliament, on the other hand, represents your interdisciplinary interests by electing and controlling the AStA.
Or to explain it with the wording of the law: The student councils take care of the students' subject-related concerns and university-political interests in their area. They advise the students and contribute to the promotion of study matters (cf. § 83 para. 2 SHSG).
The General Student Committee (AStA) is the executive body of the representation of interests elected by the student parliament. It could also be called the executive of the constituted student body. It represents the student body externally and is responsible in particular for the implementation of the budget adopted by the student parliament.
It is controlled by the student parliament.
The task of the Council of Elders is to settle disputes, control and advise the other bodies. Upon request, it checks in particular the elections to the bodies of the student body and also intervenes mediatively in disputes between or within the bodies.
From June 19, at 8 a.m., you can access the online voting booth via the link on this page. You can use a personal terminal for this purpose (smartphone, PC, laptop, etc.). Alternatively, you can cast your electronic vote at one of the two polling stations in Saarbrücken or Homburg on terminals provided for this purpose. Information on the locations of the polling stations and the opening hours can be found on this website.
Before you can access the digital voting booth, a technical check is carried out to determine whether you are eligible to vote (authentication). If this is the case, you will be forwarded accordingly. If you have problems with the authentication, please contact the election management (wahlleitung@stupa-wahl.de).
Before you vote, you will be asked to confirm that you will vote in person - or as an assistant in accordance with the declared will of the person voting - and in secret (ballot paper, affidavit). Only then will you be redirected to the election portal of our service provider Electric Paper. Here, a pseudonym of the person entitled to vote is transferred and the call is cryptologically secured. It is technically ensured that no assignment between you and your voting action can take place. The secrecy of the election is thus ensured on the technical side. It is important that you also pay attention to this when performing the voting action.
Our service provider Electric Paper only receives pseudonymized data from the electoral roll. Personal data will not be transmitted at any time.
Your electronic ballots are stored in the electronic ballot box. This is encrypted via several steps. There is no link between the pseudonyms of the eligible voters and the ballots cast. After the end of the election, the ballot box is decrypted and the ballots cast are evaluated.
Request for absentee ballot
Voting by post is permitted in accordance with § 24 WO-StuPa. With the issuance of the postal voting documents, the right to cast the vote regularly during the electronic election expires.
An application for a postal vote is possible until May 29, 2023. Absentee ballots must be received by the election administration by June 23, 13:00.