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The extinct Institutional Renovation National Action Party returns to the electoral arena with Adelante Ecuatoriano Adelante. Under the command of Sylka Sanchez, it will seek to retake the power it held at the Congress in the beginning and middle of the last decade. In this...

The National Public Procurement Service (Sercop) requested explanations from the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Juan Pablo Pozo, for hiring the company Serviportex of Ecuador for the call center service for election monitoring, counting support, help desk,...

The Public Prosecution Offenses Unit of the Prosecutor’s Office opened another preliminary inquiry into alleged embezzlement in Petroecuador. So far other processes have been opened for organized crime, illicit enrichment, and bribery. This investigation was opened after...

Ecuador’s Attorney General Galo Chiriboga said today that the transcript of the interrogation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, held in London after a suspected rape case claimed by the Swedish justice will be ready in December. In a meeting with the foreign press,...

The company Blasco Peñaherrera and Associates Studies of Marketing and Public Opinion (Market) conducted a survey Wednesday and Friday, in which former vice president and current presidential hopeful of the Alianza PAIS (AP) party, Lenin Moreno, appears with 28,1% of the...

President Rafael Correa yesterday criticized a comment on the death of Fidel Castro by US President-elect Donald Trump, who called the Cuban leader a “brutal dictator.” Those are “The words of an ignorant,” said Correa in his Twitter account, in which he...

Social activists, union leaders and professionals in different branches, without a political past, these are some of the characteristics of the majority of aspiring legislators who lead the fourteen lists registered in the Guayas Electoral Board for District 1, which includes...

Former Vice President Lenin Moreno, the official presidential hopeful for the Alianza Pais party, described late Fidel Castro as “Commander of the dignity of small towns,” and assured that the “Manuela Espejo Mission” (humanitarian aid for the disabled...

  The Government reactivated the follow-up of the Panama Papers case on Thursday with a lawsuit over assets laundering against former Petroecuador officials Carlos Pareja Yanuzzelli, Alex Bravo, Marco Calvopina and Arturo Escobar filed by Legislator Christian Viteri....

The National Electoral Council (CNE) authorized 11 polling firms to publish data related to the 2017 elections. The deadline to announce the results of their studies will be February 9, 2017. That is, ten days before the elections. The plenary of the CNE also approved the...