ASA election results announced!

After weeks of campaigning, the results of the ASA Executive election have been announced.  

Marizaan Zwart has won the position of Vice-President with 24 votes after running unopposed for the position, and for the position of Welfare Officer. Meanwhile, Angelo Fray is ASA’s newest Welfare Officer, landing the position despite only gaining eight votes compared to 15 votes for Marizaan. This is because candidates can only serve on one seat in ASA’s executive, so by Marizaan winning the VP position, Angelo became eligible for the Welfare Officer seat despite not winning the popular vote.  

Angelo did, however, win the Cultural Officer election uncontested by 19 votes, but chose to take the Welfare seat instead, telling Massive that he was “really hoping to get Welfare Officer” and that he's looking forward to being in the position to help other people at Massey. 

Current President Ben Austin says he’s “very happy with the election results” and can’t wait to start working alongside the new executive. 

As several seats of the executive are still left unfilled, including President, a by-election is planned to be held next year in March, where students can vote then for candidates to fill the positions. In the meantime, at ASA’s recent AGM, a motion was passed to co-opt current President Ben Austin and Vice-President Michaela Futter as Co-Presidents from December through to the March by-election to help “mentor and guide and incoming ASA executives”. The motion was carried unanimously over Zoom.  

Ben says the decision for co-presidency was “an extremely important one especially with MUSAF becoming more and more prominent”. He adds, “I’m privileged to be working alongside Michaela while still being involved in ASA and MUSAF for this short period of time.”