day votes Ecuador, runner Luisa González and businessman Daniel Noboa are competing in the runoff elections (runoff) for the Presidency of the country.
Diana Atamaint, president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), stressed that voting took place “fluently in 90% of the constituencies” and that there were few warnings of incidents.
Six hours after the start of election day until 13:00 local time, Participation of 43.72% of total voters was recorded Atamaint added that he was registered in the electoral roll.
Likewise, he stated the following in the tables: priority care for the disabled and elderly 52.2% of registered men and 47.8% of women were served.
He reminded that a single incident was reported in the Amazonian state of Sucumbíos, where, according to videos on social networks, a person may have marked more than one ballot paper.
Atamaint emphasized that he asked the relevant authorities to accelerate the investigation into the incident and demanded that the full weight of the law be applied against the criminal.
On his side Interior Minister Juan ZapataAttending the second situation report ceremony during the day, he explained that police investigation units had launched an investigation into the incident.
Identified person arrested for marking fourteen ballot papers for candidacy.
Describing the day as calm despite the events, Zapata ruled out any possibility of an attack, but admitted that six fake calls containing warnings were received and that they were ignored anyway.
“The country is in absolute peace, we do not have any (serious) security incidents,” Zapata added, noting that the Police had prepared 254 summonses, 250 of which were for violating the so-called “dry law” and the ban on sales. liquor consumption and four were banned for political proselytizing.
Saying that he hopes “democracy will triumph” on this election day, Zapata said, “Everything is absolutely normal and calm.”
The winner of this competition will rule the country for a short period of approximately 15 months. To complete the 2021-2025 period, which the current president, the conservative Guillermo Lasso, could not complete by implementing “cross death” last May.
With this constitutional mechanism, Lasso forced this exceptional electoral process by dissolving the National Assembly (Parliament) controlled by the Correismo-led opposition as it prepared to vote on his impeachment as the final step in the political trial in which he was being tried. He was accused of embezzlement (embezzlement), an accusation the manager denied.