Back on March 30, WCTV reported that “the sitting SGA
president will serve the remainder of her term, which expires on April 30th.
Then, should there be the need, the SGA will follow their order of succession
as prescribed in their operating procedures.”
The order for succession in SGA is the vice-president, chief
of staff, and then the senate president.
The FAMUan reported on April 27 that Smith, who was just
elected as the senate president, would be the interim SGA president because of
the delay in finalizing the SGA presidential election.
SGA Vice-President Justin Bruno won the SGA presidential
election in February. But Mangum supported a decision by the Student Supreme
Court to order a redo of the entire SGA presidential election after the losing
candidate, Victor Chrispin, submitted an appeal that claimed there were
problems with the election process at the law school in Orlando.
On Thursday, March 24, Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper
granted a request by Bruno for a temporary injunction to stop a redo of the
whole SGA presidential election in both Tallahassee and the law school campus
in Orlando. Cooper agreed with Bruno that the new election should only take
place in Orlando where voting-day problems were reported.
Mangum cancelled the new election that was scheduled to take
place at the law school on Tuesday, March 29. On the next day, she asked the
FAMU Board of Trustees (BOT) to support an appeal of the decision by Cooper.
The BOT narrowly approved the request by a 7-5 vote.
The FAMU students now do not have an individual who was elected to be SGA president in the spring elections on the BOT.