• ENGLISH
  • ESPAÑOL
facebook
twitter
  • National>Entertainment
  • National>Local Economics
  • National>Local Politics
  • National>Society
  • National>Sports
BREAKING NEWS
Two corners of Ecuador in the world ranking of the best towns for tourism
Ecuadorian companies promote IDEA law in favor of Ecuador in Washington
Ecuador incorporates 25,000 hectares of paramo to its protected areas
Former comptroller Pólit ‘helped’ a corrupt businessman get an appointment with Correa
Ecuador still has one of the weakest passports in Latin America
The European Union increases its banana consumption
This is how Quaker oats are made, a product that has been in Ecuador for several decades
Economy in 2024: stagnant, without the ITT and with a mining sector in decline
Bird flu detected in dead birds in Galapagos
El Niño phenomenon: alert status changes from yellow to orange in Ecuador

Ecuadorians in Italy and Spain protested for not being able to vote

Posted On 20 Feb 2017
Consul Lorena Escudero acknowledged that those who arrived after 16:00 could not vote in Madrid. Official sources estimate that around two thousand immigrants failed to exercise their right.
 
Throughout the day, more than 25,000 citizens entered La Nave, a place that hosted the 124 polling stations for 62,783 voters (in Spain, the number rises to 168,435). Around 22,000 people could vote. The remaining three thousand were considered as registered.
Shouting “we want to vote” hundreds of people crowded at the gates of that place.
 
“A large number of voters in Madrid determines, and this has already been seen on several occasions, that not everybody can vote,” Escudero stated.
 
In this sense, she recognized the need for the National Electoral Council (CNE) to “reconsider the technical conditions for the organization of a process as complex as that, to double its efforts and change the law if necessary.”

 

In Spain, 350 polling stations were set up for 168,435 voters. A 40% voted, according to data from the Ecuadorian Embassy in Spain.
In Milan, Italy, there were protests from Ecuadorians who also could not vote, according to videos that were broadcast on the internet.

 

Source: http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2017/02/20/nota/6056470/protestas-italia-espana-no-lograr-sufragar

About the Author
  • google-share
Previous Story

Alvaro Noboa vote accompanied by the Legislature hopefuls of his party

Next Story

CNE enables its website to present the election results

SEARCH

LATEST NEWS

Two corners of Ecuador in the world ranking of the best towns for tourism

Posted On 28 Sep 2023

Ecuadorian companies promote IDEA law in favor of Ecuador in Washington

Posted On 28 Sep 2023

Ecuador incorporates 25,000 hectares of paramo to its protected areas

Posted On 27 Sep 2023
Copyright © 2010 - 2019. All Rights Reserved. EcuadorTimes.net