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The National Electoral Council will rule on the decision of the Foreign Electoral Board, which annulled the results of the elections abroad due to failures in the telematic voting system. The Special Foreign Board, in charge of counting the votes of Ecuadorians abroad, declared the nullity of the vote on August 20 in the three constituencies abroad, due...

However, the Government responded that as long as the National Electoral Council does not officially notify the results, after the closure of the ballots, operations can continue. And he recalled that the Constitutional Court granted a one-year term to finalize the closure of operations. The Yasunidos environmental group, which promoted the referendum...

The presidential candidate of the Alianza Acción Democrática Nacional (ADN) detailed his prison ship plan. These are barges with a capacity for between 300 and 400 inmates, rented for USD 8 million a year. Barge prisons have the capacity to navigate in the Ecuadorian territorial sea, 80 nautical miles from the coast (about 128 kilometers), with between...