In Sierra and Costa provinces, the vote will be reviewed for the February 7 elections as part of the agreement signed by the CNE | Politics | News

February 13, 2021 – 03:35 AM

The provinces of the Amazon and Galapagos will not be included in the revision of the vote of the February 7 national elections, which National Electoral Council (CNE) offered to make presidential candidates Yaku Pérez and Guilllermo Lasso, from Pachakutik and the CREO-PSC alliance, respectively.

After a closed meeting on February 12 in the afternoon, the councilors agreed with the candidates for Carondelet, the president, Diana Atamaint | reported that the agreement reached was to review 100% of the Guayas votes, including the minutes of news; and that 50% of the votes in 16 provinces will be revised.

The National Electoral Council decided to revise the election registration 100% in Guayas and 50% in 16 other provinces

It was unofficially reported that these provinces would be those of the Sierra and the coast. These include Azuay, Bolívar, Loja, Cañar, Carchi, Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Pichincha, Tungurahua, Imbabura. From the coast are El Oro, Esmeraldas, Manabí, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Los Ríos and Santa Elena.

That assessment does not include the six jurisdictions of the Amazon and Galapagos.

The Council Plenary has committed itself to this “review”, following complaints about an alleged electoral fraud that Pérez denounced that would influence his entry into the second round of elections, believing it to benefit his rival Lasso.

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As part of that dialogue “agreement” that took place between the morning and noon of this Friday and lasted approximately seven hours, it was concluded that this activity will have a citizen oversight of the computer system with representatives of the parties, and that an instruction manual will be provided. be prepared to make it operational. (I)