Student organisation Pulse said it was not interested in contesting the University Student Council (KSU) elections this year if the system remained the same.

This means that probably the KSU elections, due soon, might not happen at all, as only the Christian democrat organisation SDM has announced its list of candidates.

As the electoral system stands, the group with the most votes gets elected en bloc, regardless if a particular candidate for a post gets more votes than the candidate in the team with most votes.

On Monday, Pulse submitted amendments for the KSU statute to implement a mixed-member proportional representative electoral system.

Last week, Pulse president Tyson Fenech said most voters tended to cast block votes depending on their political views, rather than selecting the people best suited for each role. This resulted in "wasted votes", because the team that got the most block votes tended to win all the positions.

Last year, student coalition Act received 46 per cent of the votes but ended up with no seats, leading to the third consecutive term for SDM.

Meanwhile, SDM had dismissed the proposal as simply a popularity bid that would not enable the council to be effectively administered by a well-constructed team.

SDM is proposing a team half of which has already been in office, with Carl Grech, James Cassar, Karl Agius and Rachel Cassar already having been on this year's executive board. The proposed new faces are Martina Galea, Matthew Bonett, Larkin Zahra, Francesca Scicluna, Mario Cachia and Stephanie Soler.