2023-10-15 22:56:30
The day of votes in Ecuador, where the runner Luisa González and the businessman Daniel Noboa compete in a second round of elections (runoff) for the Presidency of the country.
The president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Diana Atamaint, highlighted that voting is taking place “fluidly in 90% of the electoral precincts” and that there are few incident alerts.
Until a cutoff at 1:00 p.m. local time, six hours after the start of election day, A participation of 43.72% of the total voters has been registered registered in the electoral roll, Atamaint added.
Likewise, he indicated that at the tables of preferential care for people with disabilities and the elderly 52.2% of registered men and 47.8% of women had been served.
He recalled that a single incident has been reported in the Amazonian province of Sucumbíos, where, according to videos on social networks, a person would have marked several voting ballots.
Atamaint stressed that he has asked the respective authorities to expedite an investigation into the incident and demanded that the full weight of the law be exercised against the offender.
On his side, the Minister of the Interior, Juan Zapatawho participated in the ceremony of the second situation report during the day, explained that the Police investigation units have already undertaken investigations into the case.
The identified subject has been arrested for having marked fourteen ballots for a candidacy.
Zapata, who despite the incidents described the day as calm, ruled out any attacks, although he accepted that six false calls with alerts have been received that have already been discarded.
“The country is in absolute tranquility, we have no (serious) security incidents,” added Zapata, specifying that the Police have generated 254 summonses, 250 of them for violating the so-called “dry law”, the prohibition on the sale and consumption of liquor. , and four for having carried out political proselytism, also prohibited.
“Everything is absolutely normal and calm,” said Zapata, who said he hoped that “democracy triumphs” on this election day.
The winner of this contest will govern the country for a short term of about 15 months, to complete the 2021-2025 period that the current president, the conservative Guillermo Lasso, will not complete, having applied the “crossed death” last May.
With this constitutional mechanism, Lasso forced this exceptional electoral process, by dissolving the National Assembly (Parliament), controlled by the opposition led by Correismo, when it was preparing to vote on his dismissal as the final step of a political trial in which he was accused of embezzlement (embezzlement), a charge that the ruler rejects.
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