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President-elect Lasso pledges 'true change' to Ecuador
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13/04/2021 - 03:20 Former banker Guillermo Lasso (R) won Ecuador's presidential election after a campaign dominated by an economic crisis aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic Fernando Mendez AFP 4 min
Quito (AFP)
President-elect Guillermo Lasso on Monday announced a "true change" in crisis-wracked Ecuador after bringing to an end an era of left-wing election victories.
The 65-year-old former banker beat socialist economist Andres Arauz in Sunday's poll with official results after 97 percent of the votes were counted showing Lasso leading by 52.5 percent to 47.4.
"Ecuador is beginning a new stage in which we can all live better. Democracy, freedom and Ecuadoran families won," Lasso wrote on Twitter.
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Ecuadorans voted Sunday to choose between a young, socialist protege of ex-leader Rafael Correa and a veteran conservative as their new president, with the oil-rich country mired in an economic crisis aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Opinion polls had the two contenders neck and neck in the battle for control of the country of 17.4 million.
Economist Andres Arauz, 36, is virtually unknown but topped February's first round of voting on the back of support from his mentor, Correa, who led the country from 2007-2017.
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