The results of the first electoral election in Ecuador will take place among its citizens to decide between Andrés Arauz, a UNES candidate nominated by Rafael Correa, and Guillermo Lasso, political conservative who will, by his intentions, vote on April 11. While electoral authority and juices are being studied by third-party candidates, the indigenous leader Yaku Pérez, who has led by 30,000 votes, has two opposing parties in his campaign strategies. A more informative statement in this interview with EL PAIS that is open to the feminist proposals and the LGTBI collective. This mutation attracts one, but also creates disconfidence in others.
Pregunta. In the 2017 elections, 28% support was given in the first round. In this case, this amount is 19.74%. Are you satisfied?
Respuesta. Obviously, I aspire to a higher number, but we would like to put it in context: the first time there are 16 candidates for the Presidency. This is also not normal. Of those, 15 will give me the opportunity to vote and plant an attack strategy for Guillermo Lasso.
P. Is your third candidacy, will it last?
R. I am optimistic about the decision to take over the Ecuadorian people, now that it has only two options: one that represents the past and the present, which we represent, of a future of respect for democracy, for freedom, and for a country of opportunity and prosper. For this, when we connect the results, here it is, step by step, responding to the question that I have to make.
P. O see, si no gana, es tan posible que vuelva a presentar as com no lo intente más …
R. Well, obviously, these are the options of life. What can be ratified is that it is working and we will not assume any position of success. Prefiero assumes a position of humility and respect for the lawillad of the ecuadorian people.
P. Will you trust the results that proclaim the electoral authority, turning the questions to its management? To record some: the National Electoral Council accepted that Andrés Arauz presented himself with a candidate for the identity of another person, took place in the last moment of aspirant Álvaro Noboa and, lastly, an electoral judge who must decide on the record of votes that Yaku Pérez can meet secretly with her.
R. I believe that the Electoral National Council as an institution has much to offer. And the proof of his institutional disability is that which he has signed. On February 7, it will be announced that there will be a partial quick release that will pose in the second place to candidate Yaku Pérez and, minutes later, he will be corrected. Pero ya sembraron la duda. Generate the investigation into whether there was a fraud. Actuar dea manera deja mucho que desear.
P. One of the most recent criticisms of it is that it benefited from the 1999 banking year (when the ahorros and the ecuatorian bank accounts were collected). Usted was appointed Minister of Economy in his time. What is hizo and why is this lading accepted?
R. The decision taken by the Banking Holiday was adopted on 9 March 1999. In that case, the governor of the province of Guayas and a governor did not have anything to do with economic policy or control of the banking system. Ejercí ese cargo hassta August 1999. From August and onwards only three days, then Minister of Economy. It is said that the art of the banking holiday was abandoned. He passed around 22 years ago in this episode. Jamas has been involved in no judicial process, because there is no document, no deed, no version of what you want to see with this topic.
P. ¿No benefit from it?
R. El gobierno de [Rafael] Correa created the Crisis Investigation Commission of the crisis of the year 99. It was received. And what is the conclusion of this commission? There is nothing that can be done with the banking holiday. Correa estuvo diez años en el poder; Moreno, cuatro en el poder … Catorce años han tenido para dar un paso más alá de esta narrative de Goebbels de repetir una mentira mil veces para convertirla en verdad, al punto de que usted nuewament me planta la misma pregunta que he respondido durante years. Nothing to do with the banking holiday. Yo camino libre Ecuador, otros son los han han fugado para ne cum a sentence de la carel des act de corruption corbrodeos. No he huido. But it is also related to the right, the right to the honor, to the honor of the appeal that is given to us, our children … And it is not possible to follow with a lie and repeat, with affirmations or with questions.
P. What does this question mean?
R. Nee, the agradezco that touches the theme as one of the critics that hacen a Guillermo Lasso. The other is the banker. It is a cargo that has been disbursed to many honors, because thanks to my work as a banker he has been able to create more than 100,000 employees and the private sector in a direct way and the financing of companies, employers, families, finance studies in the exterior of many young people. Your commitment. Without embarrassment, the other candidate of the second week never created a company, never created an employee and now we have to decide that he will create an employee. He does not know how to create a job. The one who created the job so yo, because he permanently hecho the long of my life.
P. Andrés Arauz, al usted alude, dice que usted cogobierna con el presidente Lenín Moreno en la sombra …
R. Aquella thinks that he went with Moreno was created precisely by the correism. For Moreno’s correísmo escogoí as candidate, the Moreno president’s correísmo with a fraud and I am an opponent of Moreno’s governor. In Ecuador there is not a single person of the CREO movement, as far as I am concerned, nor a friend or acquaintance who worked in the Governor of Moreno. Nee, the creator of Moreno es Correa and the one who governed Moreno es Correa, because many officials of the governor of Correa worked with him.
P. Usted and Andrés Arauz changed their campaign strategy in the second round, do you think UNES ‘candidate is really far from the president?
R. No we can create because it is obviously Correa. Trabajó diez años en el Gobierno de Correa. It is proposed that Correa regress to Ecuador, since it has been sentenced to years of imprisonment for acts of corruption. We can now come to decipher the second void left by Correa’s distance. No es verdad. No le cree ningún ecuatoriano. Is the treater of Correa. Representing this old politics, the socialism of sail XXI that seeks to divide into equatorial society.
P. She has been employed now in sectors such as feminism and she has nothing to do with disbelief. Have you ever had to read, for example, on the subject of abortion?
R. On the subject of abortion, I would like to say with clarity that I believe in the defense of life since conception has natural death. It is a principle that no child violates as a person, as a citizen, as a father of a family, as a spouse. I believe in these values and it seems that I will soon live with them. But, obviously, like the President of Ecuador, to direct the destinations of 17 million Ecuadorians, he must be respectful of different thinking. Once you have defined some of its principles, say that you have been able to respect the principles of what distinguished me. And if we want to turn it into a legal body, then there will be a discussion or dialogue on the topic with the participation of scientists. It is not a topic that can be defined solely from the point of view of religion.
P. Si hooi-debat, ingewande, ¿un Lasso presidente podría reformar el Kódigo Penal para de penalizar el abortion?
R. I’re serious about a decision by the Ecuadorian people, a popular consultation. At the initiative of the President of the Republic it is an expedited expedition, a lie of a great national debate. Hooi-amplios sectors of the Ecuadorian society to women have not listened. It is not said that you impose my principles and values. No one has ever been in the cargo of President of the Republic.
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