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.