There will be no campus re-elections for Universiti Malaya (UM) and the results of last Thursday’s student body elections shall stand.

This was announced by UM Vice-chancellor Ghauth Jasmon this evening.

NONE The VC said that pursuant to this, the UM Student Representative Council will be asked to form its cabinet within this week.

Ghauth ( right ) said that investigations by both the university and experts appointed by the students into complaints regarding the e-voting system had found no flaws.

"Even Harvard University, which uses a similar system, has no problem" he said.

However, he said the university will continue to monitor the system and ensure that it functions smoothly.

On Jan 29, a moratorium was imposed on the UM campus elections results amidst claims of election fraud and vote-rigging.

According to the Jan 28 election results, the pro-Aspirasi group, said to be favoured by the university administration, won 21 seats, just four more than the anti-establishment pro-Mahasiswa group.

The two student factions have been fighting a tooth-and-nail for control of the Students Representative Council over the past years with the pro-M group winning by one seat in 2008.

VC’s office stormed

The moratorium was imposed after Pro-M demanded that the elections be held again using the traditional ballot system and called for the current e-voting system to be abolished.

NONE They also alleged that the university administration had violated election procedures in favour of their rivals.

More than 200 Universiti Malaya students from the pro-M faction had last week occupied UM’s administration building in protest and stormed Ghauth's office when he failed to meet them as requested.

Ghauth, who arrived at his office later, said that he was willing to negotiate with the 10 student representatives.

The university officials later agreed to suspend the results of the campus polls.