Elections in Ecuador: vote to vote, Guillermo Lasso says that “I have a second vote”

Only five minutes left to Guillermo Lasso, Candidate for President of Ecuador, to vote for his position at the Ileana Espinel Educational Unit, a voting center located in the north of Guayaquil. Lufro de sufragar, el aspirante por el movimiento Creando Oportunidades (Creo) habló ante la pressa y ensures that “habra bra seguelta” tras the elections of today.

“We are happy with our voting obligation. Invite all ecuators to do with all biosecurity standards. What we can say is that we have a second world, and we will be in the second world ”, manifested the ex banker conservator, of 65 years.

Lasso, who conquers the opposition to correctness, calls the electoral process as “a historic day for Ecuador”.

The candidate was accompanied to vote by supporters and other aspirants of his movement.

The former banker, who ran for Ecuador’s presidency in the 2013 and 2017 elections, account with the support of the Christian Social Party, as ex-manager Rafael Correa could not destroy the gate of Guayaquil (suroeste), nucleus commercial ecuatoriano and fortin of the right.

Correa, who has been living in Belgium since 2017, is running for vice president in binomio with Andrés Arauz, but will face a prison term of office in 2020 in the wake of corruption scandals.

In the 2017 ballot, Lenín Moreno -ex-Vice President of Correa between 2007 and 2013, and current head of Estado- won with points of percentage points about Lasso, who aspires to enter the cargo.

Lasso is the minor of 11 men in a media class family and is catapulted as an important banker with three months of economy in cues. Between 1989 and 2012 he was Vice President, Governor and President of the Private Bank of Guayaquil, one of the mayors of Ecuador. Nacido and Guayaquil (suroeste), are defined as “tolerant” and “democratic”. She was married to Maria de Lourdes Alcívar, with whom she has five children.

In the public arena, he was governor of the province of Guayas (capital of Guayaquil) and Secretary of State (Superministro) of the Economy in the administration of the former President Jamil Mahuad (1998-2000, right).

Ecuador celebrates this domino general elections polarized between a right-wing conservative and a dispersed district, in the midst of an economic crisis aggravated by the covid-19 pandemic and with the courage decided to restore power.

A total of 13.1 million electors were nominated to designate Lenín Moreno’s successor, who took office in May 2017 and did not seek re-election.

Among the record of 16 apparent candidates as favorites Arauz, who completed 36 years on Saturday, and Lasso. Ambos accounted for 32% and 21% of the vote intention, respectively, following the most recent Market inquiry.

Peru analysts and probes, which publication is prohibited since ten days in Ecuador, ahead of a second week, prevailing until April 11th.

To obtain the presidency in first place this domingo, the candidates need the more than one of the valid votes, or at least a 40% with a difference of diez points for the sake of their most rival rival.

The country, of 17.4 million inhabitants, faces a crisis exacerbated by the oil price chain, its main export product, while having doubled its external debt, which represents 44% of GDP.

The comics also designate the 137 members of the National Assembly, but debated the fragmentation of the political forces and did not hope that there would be a party majority.

The contingent will be observed by 260 delegates of international bodies such as the OEA and the European Union (EU).

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