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Glas: silence and absence

The candidate for the vice-presidency of Alianza PAIS party, Jorge Glas, had a silent day despite the clamor that surrounded him. Between Sunday and Monday, his public appearances were short and he never held conversations with his sympathizers and, even less, with the media....
Posted On 21 Feb 2017
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Political forces will support Lasso in the second round, after the disclose of results

  The Social-Christian (PSC) and Sociedad Patriótica (SP) parties have been the only ones that have so far defined their support for the CREO-SUMA presidential candidate, Guillermo Lasso, in the case of the second round of voting.   The other organizations that participated in...
Posted On 21 Feb 2017
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AP and CREO-SUMA lead the Legislature votes

The Alianza PAIS (PA) party would achieve six of 15 national assembly members, according to the quick count of the Citizen Participation Corporation (CPC), released Sunday night. The SUMA-CREO alliance and the PSC would have obtained three seats each; And ID, Patriotic Society...
Posted On 21 Feb 2017
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Alvaro Noboa speaks of “electoral inconsistency” in the Legislature results

The Ecuadorian businessman Alvaro Noboa mentions the “electoral inconsistency” in the counting of votes at the Legislature level by the CNE. Noboa explains that candidates of the Alianza Pais party have 48% of the votes, thus overcoming the presidential hopeful Lenin...
Posted On 21 Feb 2017
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The scrutiny of 87.8 of the votes reflects this result: Moreno 39.11%; Lasso 28.28%

  Until 09:07 of Monday, February 20, 87.6% of the votes were counted. Lenín Moreno obtained a 39.11% and Guillermo Lasso a 28.28%. According to the results so far, Moreno goes ahead with 3,292,566 votes compared to the 2’381.3438 votes of Lasso. Until 09:07 of Monday,...
Posted On 20 Feb 2017
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Thousands of people mobilized at dawn, in Quito and Guayaquil, around the CNE offices

Thousands of protesters still remain at the headquarters of the National Electoral Council in Quito and Guayaquil this morning, demanding transparency in the vote counting. The incidents intensified after the President of the Guayas Electoral Council, Gabriela Muñoz, ordered the...
Posted On 20 Feb 2017
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Celebration tweets and complaints around the electoral process

Twitter was a sounding board of the general elections yesterday. Comments, news, alleged cases that left in question the validity of the voting in certain polling stations were disseminated through this social network. Among the hashtags that became a trend are # Elections2017,...
Posted On 20 Feb 2017
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The supporters of the CREO party still remain outside the National Electoral Council, in the north of Quito. 

The supporters of the CREO party still remain outside the National Electoral Council, in the north of Quito. On Monday morning, February 20, 2017, the supporters of presidential hopeful Guillermo Lasso installed a loudspeaker in a truck to encourage more people to wait for the...
Posted On 20 Feb 2017
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4pelagatos: The crushing defeat of the “correismo.”

The government lost the maximum bet of this campaign: to win in the first round. The electoral result is an unquestionable denial to the government’s marketing optimism since those in power never hesitated to say they would win with the majority of votes in the first round....
Posted On 20 Feb 2017
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People in the streets of Ecuador talk about a fraud in the elections

Hundreds of citizens nationwide denounce what in their opinion is an electoral fraud of the ruling party. Social networks have served as a platform for disseminating photos, videos, comments and news of alleged irregularities that could cast doubt on the validity of the results...
Posted On 20 Feb 2017
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