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Numbers released by former Election Commission Chair Brad A. Seiler ’10 yesterday evening suggested that Hayward and running mate Felix M. Zhang ’11 had lost the election by just 45 votes—the smallest margin of victory in a Council election in recent memory...
Outgoing UC President Andrea R. Flores ’10 said yesterday that the UC will instead suspend its bylaws and put the vote to certify the election results to the entire council at the next UC General meeting. In an e-mail to the student body at 2:37 a.m. this morning, she appealed to students to respect the results of the election...
Flores sought last night to distinguish the events surrounding the election from the operations of the Council more generally...
...Rompuy recognized that the wider European public sees him as an unknown quantity, and he addressed it head-on after the summit. "There has been a great deal of talk and comment about the future profile and image of the President of the Council," he said. "But the key things are dialogue, unity and action: the image of the Council resides in strength through results...
...Rompuy's career has been mainly that of a behind-the-scenes fixer in Belgian politics. And he emphasized that his position was not that of chief executive but, as President of the European Council, the body that gathers the E.U.'s leaders for summits, he is more of a chairman, whose role is to mediate across the E.U. "My personal opinion is totally subservient to the Council," he said. "It doesn't matter what I think. My role is to find a consensus...