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The President of the National Assembly, Fernando Cordero, suspended this morning the session that should have covered the Media Bill voting, article by article. Cordero said the the decision was given due to the absence of some of the legislators, “I prefer that the 124...

This afternoon, the leader of PRIAN political party, Alvaro Noboa along with his block announced in a press conference that they will vote against the Media Bill. Noboa ratified to be a believer of freedom of the press, so he asked the party to vote together against the...

Until midnight tonight is the deadline for political groups to deliver registration or re-enrollment applications in the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) to participate in next year’s elections. So far, eleven national organizations: six political parties...

The National Assembly President, Fernando Cordero, told the media today, in Legislature Plenum, that the Media Bill will be voted tomorrow. The plenum approved a request proposing the bill to be voted article by article, with 63 votes in favor, 50 against and 11 abstentions. This...

The Alianza Pais Party valued its electoral strength in two parish councils, La Esmeralda (Los Rios) and Panguintza (Zamora Chinchipe), with a new voting system and another seat allocation method. In these processes, the voting system known as electronic voting was inaugurated....

Ricardo Patiño, the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister will begin tomorrow tour from Cuba to three countries of the Caribbean. The tour is scheduled to end on Friday July 20, Patiño will visit Trinidad and Tobago, Surinam and Guyana to strengthen the bilateral cooperation. The journey...

The current issue of the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) is the highly anticipated electoral campaign. The statement was made by Domingo Paredes, the president of CNE, “The current phenomena is that we are discovering that many pre candidates have radio...

The main assembly of the Constitutional Court (CC), diligently decided to lift the precautionary measures held against three articles of the Reformatory Law to the Electoral Law (Code of Democracy). President of the Constitutional Court, Patricio Pazmiño, confirmed that since...

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, met yesterday with his counterpart, Michelle Martelly, who called for more financial and human support for the reconstruction of Haiti, which was affected by a devastating earthquake in 2010. Martelly was reunited in the big square, with...

Judge Juan Paredes, who almost a year ago convicted El Universo Newspaper at the trial that followed President Rafael Correa, was declared winner last Tuesday to take part in the Second Criminal Chamber of Guayas. This occurs six days after the Guayas School of Lawyers (CAG for...