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The credibility of the National Electoral Council (CNE) worn out and eroded, even more, after the April 2 elections. The distrust was capitalized on the streets. Last Friday, councilor Marcela Paredes confirmed what for some years social and political actors comment: the...

The heavy rains that hit the country leave, so far, new disasters: flooded cities (Santa Ana, Portoviejo, Milagro, Machala), more than two thousand people evacuated, destroyed roads, school classrooms converted into bedrooms. The situation leads authorities to declare the...

Carlos Brunis, president of the CTTP and former Legislator candidate representing the Creo movement, warned that members of more than 316 cooperatives in the city would join the de facto measure to demand the city hall tighter controls on illegal taxis. The leader said that the...

The CREO party and the Patriotic Society Party (SP) filed two lawsuits against the chairperson of the National Electoral Council Juan Pablo Pozo. The first one was submitted by the vice-presidential candidate for CREO, Andrés Páez. Yesterday, he appeared at the Contentious...

The threats specified that she would be “dragged” and her family tucked into black bags. The night of April 2, Ruth Hidalgo, director of the Citizen Participation Corporation, received was threatened after announcing the results of the fast count that organization did...

Ángel Polibio Córdova, director of Cedatos, says he has received threats and that he is being harassed and persecuted by the police. Cedatos will file a lawsuit as soon as possible, “because we are actually victims of harassment,” Cordova stated. Regarding the...

The National Electoral Council (CNE) will meet today to reinstall the national ballot-hearing and totalize the results of the balloting. Sunday, the electoral authority received the preliminary results minutes from provincial and foreign polling boards. The Foreign Special Board...

  On Thursday, April 6, 2017, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa accused “hackers from the United States” of the temporary collapse of the website of the National Electoral Council (CNE) on April 2, the date of the presidential elections, an event the opposition...

“I will extend the hand” to the presidential hopeful of the political opposition, Guillermo Lasso, of the CREO party,” said President-elect Lenin Moreno, when announcing that he “respects” the request for the recount of the votes of the runoff. Amid...

April 2 elections in Ecuador end with a president-elect and demonstrations in at least 7 cities. Daily Expreso has mapped these concentrations, in an attempt to explain the dynamics of the country during the last days. Ecuador remains fragmented in two colors: green and blue,...