2021-02-08 04:35:28 GMT2021-02-08 12:35:28(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
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QUITO, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) Progressive candidate Andres Arauz and indigenous leader Yaku Perez are leading in Ecuador s presidential election, the official quick count released by the National Electoral Council (CNE) showed late Sunday.
The results were announced by the president of the CNE, Diana Atamaint, four hours after the voting ended in the country.
The CNE quick count showed Arauz of the Union for Hope Alliance had won 31.5 percent of the votes, and Perez representing the Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement had won 20.04 percent of the votes.
Atamaint said the results were from a sample of 2,193 records, equivalent to 90.4 percent of the total 2,425 records selected for the quick count.
February 3, 2021
On February 7, 2021, over 13 million Ecuadorian voters across the country’s 24 provinces will cast their ballots for president and vice president, the 137-seat National Assembly, provincial legislatures in all 24 provinces, and members of the Andean Parliament the governing and deliberative body of the Andean community, which encompasses Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Whomever wins the upcoming elections will have to address the country’s main problems, which, according to public opinion polls, Ecuadorians perceive to be an economic crisis, poverty, and debt; unemployment and underemployment; corruption and justice; the Covid-19 pandemic; insecurity and violence; and education.
The Presidential Elections
2021-02-02 09:06:05 GMT2021-02-02 17:06:05(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
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QUITO, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) Ecuador is heading towards general elections scheduled for Feb. 7, in which 16 candidates are vying for the presidency amid a fragmented political landscape.
According to observers, there has yet to be a consolidated political tendency, with splintered parties too small to represent a large portion of the population, and many of them are thus relying on temporary alliances to gather votes.
The fact that so many parties are in the running reflects Ecuador needs a political reform, especially given the approval ratings of some even lower than 1 percent, Juan Paz y Mino, an Ecuadorian political analyst and historian, told Xinhua.
UNES presidential candidate Andrés Arauz.
The establishment are trying every trick to exclude leading opposition ticket Union for Hope (UNES) from the presidential election.
Ecuador’s Electoral Disputes Tribunal (TCE) denied the UNES ticket final certification on November 29. The TCE ordered the National Electoral Council (CNE) to review charges against UNES presidential candidate Andrés Arauz and vice-presidential candidate Carlos Rabascall and possibly exclude them from the election.
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Arauz has consistently polled as one of the two candidates likely to win the February 7 election, or to be in the runoff in April.
UNES is the most popular left/progressive electoral alliance in the country, and is allied with former president Rafael Correa.