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An image that marked the beginning of the day. Chairs occupied by delegates of the Alianza PAIS Alliance ruling party and, just in front of them, the space allocated for the CREO-SUMA right-wing party, empty. With that scenario and almost an hour late, the recount of 3,865 vote...

The vote count culminated yesterday, Tuesday, April 18, at 21:30 pm, after 13 hours of intense work at the General Rumiñahui Coliseum, in the capital. The head of the National Electoral Council, Juan Pablo Pozo, was in charge of announcing the results, after a plenary session....

The General Rumiñahui Coliseum was surrounded by metal fences and a contingent of more than 200 police agents. Around 09:00, Alianza PAIS (AP) demonstrators began to arrive, remaining next to the gates of the parking lot of the Polytechnic School, while CREO-SUMA supporters...

From now one neither Jaime Nebot nor Mauricio Rodas will be able to have dinner at one of the luxury restaurants they usually go because their salaries are paid by ‘the people´s money.’ At least that is what bullfighter Guillermo Albán would have said to a...

The government of outgoing President Rafael Correa seeks to leave an image of positivism impregnated in the numbers that reflect the employment and the poverty situation in the first quarter of the year. Yesterday, three key men on his team disclosed details of the figures that...

Two social organizations filed a protection action so that the National Assembly inter alia “suspends the approval process” of the Code of Citizen Participation. Representatives of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) and the Regional Foundation for...

The members of the Alianza Pais party seek to overcome the chapter of the vote recount to focus on the succession of the Government and the new structure of the Legislature. At first, Franklin Samaniego, Legislator-elect of the ruling party, had said that tomorrow there would be...

An unexpected power outage tempered the explanation given by the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) Juan Pablo Pozo to the press on the counting process of 3,865 vote tally sheets scheduled for today, from 08:30, at the Rumiñahui Coliseum, in Quito. Even the...

The presidential hopeful Guillermo Lasso has pronounced after the Electoral Court dismissed as inadmissible the appeal submitted by the CREO party for the manual recount of all votes, and claimed: that “it has closed the door to democracy.” The statement reads as...

The National Electoral Council (CNE) will recount today 1.2 million votes of the runoff held on April 2nd. But this process is far from clearing the doubts. Although the electoral authorities contend that having accepted 100% of the 3,865 claims brought by the CREO-SUMA and the...