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The protest is still alive in the exteriors of the CNE, in Quito

Hundreds of people remain outside the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Quito. Women, men, private employees, students, activists and senior citizens protest against the alleged fraud in Sunday’s election. Most are sympathizers of Guillermo Lasso and Andrés Páez, of the...
Posted On 04 Apr 2017
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Lasso: “We are not afraid, damn.”

In front of thousands of supporters who are concentrating on the exteriors of the CNE in Quito, the opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso arrived after he said so at a press conference hours earlier, and mentioned before the crowd, “We are not afraid of you, damn it!”...
Posted On 04 Apr 2017
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Guillermo Lasso, present at the CREO protests in Quito and Guayaquil.

The presence of presidential hopeful Guillermo Lasso on Monday at the National Electoral Council (CNE) attracted his supporters to the place where the CREO-SUMA Alliance installed a platform so that people express their dissatisfaction with the electoral results issued by the...
Posted On 04 Apr 2017
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Guillermo Lasso insists on fraud and speaks of ‘an illegitimate government.’

Presidential hopeful Guillermo Lasso made a warning to the world: they will pretend to “establish an illegitimate government” in Ecuador from the 24 of May. According to the opposition candidate of the Creo-SUMA Alliance, the figures of the National Electoral Council...
Posted On 04 Apr 2017
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Various effects after journalistic revelations of the Panama Papers

The identification of senior public officials who benefited from illegal operations in tax havens, 18,000 investigations into possible tax defraud, and the disappointment of the population towards the political sphere, are some of the effects of the publication of the Panama...
Posted On 04 Apr 2017
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Guillermo Lasso achieved more votes in thirteen provinces and Lenin Moreno in eleven provinces

Until 17:00 yesterday, the National Electoral Council (CNE) finished the count in 15 of the 24 provinces of the country, with 99.46% of the votes counted. The Moreno-Glas binomial, of the Alianza PAIS (PA) party, obtained 51.17% of votes, compared to the 48.83% achieved by the...
Posted On 04 Apr 2017
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The CREO party denounces that votes of Guillermo Lasso were awarded to Lenin Moreno

Cesar Monge, director of CREO, said that they would remain vigilant after the official results were released by the National Electoral Council, which declare Lenin Moreno winner of the elections. The leader of the CREO party said that they have the original records of the polling...
Posted On 03 Apr 2017
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Assange invites Guillermo Lasso to “withdraw” from Ecuador

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on the right-wing opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso to leave the country in a month. “I cordially invite Mr. Lasso to withdraw from Ecuador in the next 30 days (with or without his offshore millions) îAssangeYESLassoNO,” the...
Posted On 03 Apr 2017
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Another struggle outside the CNE

The exteriors of the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym), in Quito and its provincial branches, have become another scene of the clashes between the supporters of the candidates. Although all agree on taking care of the votes. To that end, in Guayaquil,...
Posted On 03 Apr 2017
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Ecuador in bewilderment

The country lives an election day without certainty after unofficial results leave a country with two candidates claiming the presidency. Lenín Moreno, presidential hopeful of the Alianza PAIS party was proclaimed, based on the exit poll of the Perfiles de Opinión polling firm....
Posted On 03 Apr 2017
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