Elections in Ecuador: Electoral Council will carry out a partial recount of votes following an agreement between Lasso and Yaku Pérez

Ecuador’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced this Friday evening that it will conduct a partial recount of votes, after Guillermo Lasso granted Yaku Pérez’s request in this regard.

“I am the first to be interested in Transparency takes precedence, above party and personal interests is the welfare of EcuadorLasso said in a meeting with Pérez at the headquarters of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Quito, overseen by the OAS Observation Mission.

After nearly six hours of negotiating with the candidates, the CNE announced that 100 percent of the ballots will be counted in Guayas and 50 percent in 16 other provinces.

“Historical expropriation”

Led by the president of the CNE, Diana Atamaint, and her four advisers, the meeting, broadcast on television and on the Internet, was opened by Pérez to warn Ecuadorians of the “historic expropriation”.

“Ecuador’s history is marked by expropriation,” said the indigenous candidate for president, drawing on colonial history and the extractivist industry, who assures “that the expropriation is not over” and “they are taking everything away from us”.

“The expropriation continues, today there is a vote, the expropriation of a whole dream, a whole project, of true hope,” he told accuse “a new Nostradamus” who “knew the results beforehand” and who “is not in Ecuador”, in a clear allusion to former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017).

And he asked that before Numerous inconsistencies appeared in all provinces that a general census is being made, according to the complaint he filed in the morning with the Constitutional Court.

For his part, Lasso, speaking next, said he raised his gauntlet to be “faithful and consistent” with his “absolutely democratic spirit.”

According to the latest official data from the CNE platform, with the With 99.65% of control from last Sunday’s general election, the correista candidate, Andrés Arauz, leads the vote with 32.70%, followed by Lasso with 19.74% and Pérez with 19.38%.

Lasso, who arrived from Guayaquil this morning for the meeting, “Supported the proposal” to count votes as long as it is done “within the framework of the law.”

“That the number of votes is revised under the law, because If we did not take the law as a basis, we would leave the rule of law, and that is the most dangerous way to cause chaos, a disorder completely removed from the goal of the Ecuadorian people.

After the recount was announced, he said, “The important thing is that the Ecuadorian people live in peace and tranquility and that the electoral process, which will continue immediately on my side with the second round campaign, is a process for which there is no doubt.”

The law provides that the election results must be presented to the people within 10 days of the election, so next Wednesday.

This will make it difficult performing a full count as required by PérezTherefore, the scope of the evaluation could be carried out in only seven provinces.

Joint struggle against “totalitarianism”

The conservative candidate reached out to Pérez for a common fight against correísmo -winner of Sunday’s elections led by candidate Andrés Arauz-, whom he described as violator of “rights” and “freedoms”.

‘We have a common opponent. And since we can’t make it return this dialogue is absolutely necessary, it is necessary because more than 68% of people said no to that model “, he emphasized.

Both strive for mood according to the control that would end all day, They agreed in two speeches that their main opponent was Correísmo.

In addition, Lasso warned that most of these options “had the common denominator that the totalitarian model would not return to Ecuador.All he did is divide Ecuadorian society, commit corruption, cheat the Ecuadorian people ”.

Count problems

The new vote count, if it occurs, could are extended due to the legal ramifications involved, and which are being studied behind closed doors following a request to the CNE to the media who have left the meeting because of the sensitivities of the case.

In any case, according to various local media outlets, It seems that the CNE already has a legal study of the case with the possible variants.

The decision on a possible count, as well as the count itself, It could also be delayed because tomorrow the Carnival bridge will begin in Ecuador, paralyzing the country for four days.

With information from EFE

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