Running for Syura Council

You know, when you first enter college/university you have this mental checklist of the things you want to do while you're there? I have one too and one of the things on the list are to run for an election.

So I did just that last week. It was for the Syura Council of the Law Student Society (MeLEX). Here's how it worked. Around 100 Law students submitted their application to the department to be considered as one of the candidates and from there, they short-listed 30 of us to go through an interview session with the lecturers.

Only 25 successful interviewees will be allowed to run for the campaign and contest for the election. So it began. We had posters of ourselves hung around the campus, garnering (or begging) the support of fellow friends to vote for us that night and we had to be extra nice to the rest of the law student society. Hehehe.

And then came the Annual General Meeting night where all the Law students gathered together to elect their next line-up of the Syura Council. Each candidate was asked to go onstage and was given a topic to talk about for 2 minutes.

Some had to talk about a pink t-shirt, sambal belacan, Islam Hadhari and homosexual marriages. My topic was New Economic Model (NEM). I know right, so 'zzzzzzzz.....'

Anyhow, they voted and only 17 could be included in the new line-up of the Council. I loved how supportive and enthusiastic these people can be. The hall was shaking with screams and shrieks of the audiences who were supporting their favourite candidates. Way to live up the night!

So, I was one of the 17 members (yay!) and the next day we had a meeting on our own to decide on which post goes to whom. Someone will nominate a name for one particular post and if the majority agrees with it then he will be holding the position.

This process was first practiced during Prophet Muhammad's era where every decision and choices made were discussed among the Syura Council members beforehand. That's what we're doing too, right now.

I got the Head of General Secretariat post. Whatever that means. I'll find out soon enough la.

But for now, on the mental checklist, 'running an election'; CHECK =D

The poster. FYI, I don't spell greater as 'greather'. That was a typo error on their part.

The candidates of the night. Notice how everyone was dressed in black and white.

And that's me with my ever-chatty classmate cum Assistant Head of General Secretariat, Amalina