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Quito, Feb 5 (Prensa Latina) The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador inaugurated the 2023 sectional elections to elect more than five thousand local authorities and to respond to the constitutional referendum called by the government.
“We have been receiving reports of some state governors who encourage political thugs," the IGP said.
One of the major problems that we have had to contend with since the return to civilian rule in 1999, and even long before then in previous electoral cycles and subsequently – 1959, 1979, 1983, 1993, 1999, 2007, 2011, 2015, and 2019 more notably, has been the spectre of electoral violence - in the form of killings, attacks, assault, assassination, affray, before during and after elections.
There are laws in place to check electoral violence, but the political gladiators think that it is business as usual.
In a major development, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has agreed to endorse a bipartisan measure to reform the Electoral Count Act.