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  • Latin America The indigenous leader and the conservative candidate fight vote by vote to contest the second round in Ecuador against the winner, the correista Arauz

Ecuador lives with expectation and concern the electoral scrutiny, which appears a new surprise in the final rush to get a place in the April ballot.

The conservative

Guillermo Lasso

has reduced the distance that separated him from the indigenous leader Yaku Pérez

and is approaching the second round thanks to the so-called "acts with novelty", mostly from the Guayas province.

In this area of ​​the country, the indigenous presence is less than in the highlands and in the Amazon.

Pérez has seen his advantage pulverize since Tuesday to just 4,000 votes, 0.05% more than his rival.

And downhill.

The "YakuPower", as they call the great surprise of the Ecuadorian presidential elections, maintained 19.65% of the votes, compared to 19.60 for the leader of the CREO Movement, when 3.37% of the minutes had yet to be processed , including those that had shown abnormalities.

"At this rate it is obvious that Lasso is going to overtake me

,

"

acknowledged the candidate of Pachakutik, who traveled to Guayaquil to witness closely the count that seems to take him away from the electoral pulse with

Andrés Arauz,

the correista leader who expects a rival for the second turn of april.

The Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement has not waited for the voting to close and has summoned its bases and social organizations in defense of the votes, "a sovereign will that seeks to be mocked by the National Electoral Council (CNE)."

"The people are outraged to see how they shamelessly steal our votes.

We have had several calls asking to mobilize, but I have told them: Please, comrades, remain calm, we want to exhaust all legal instances.

I do not want that because of the CNE let's have an uprising, "

tempered Pérez, who accused" an invisible hand from Belgium, "referring to former President Rafael Correa, of trying to stop his passage to the second round.

The indigenous movement accuses the "oligarchic pact between Lasso and Correa" and

warns that they will use "all the necessary resources and means, legal

and in fact within our reach"

so that the popular will is respected.

The last indigenous mobilization in 2019, including the "taking" of Quito, put the government of Lenín Moreno on the ropes.

"You have the confidence and tranquility that once we know 100% of the results, we will be in the second round," Lasso harangued his followers.

The Organization of American States (OAS) mission promoted meetings between members of the CNE and the candidates in an

attempt to defuse tensions

that could erupt at any time.

President Lenín Moreno has also demanded maximum transparency from the CNE given the tightness of the result.

Most analysts argue that Pérez, a moderate leader, an ecologist from the indigenous left who has unceremoniously confronted the abuses of the citizen's revolution, would be a formidable rival for Arauz, despite the fact that he leaves with 32% of the grassroots support. of correísmo.

Pérez's charisma would unite part of Xavier Hervas's Social Democrats (16%) and the anti-Correístas.

Some support that Lasso, a former banker and member of Opus Dei, would hardly have.

One of the guests of Correísmo, the Spanish Juan Carlos Monedero, took down against Yaku with

statements that were defined as "racist and colonialist"

in local media.

Monedero ironic about the indigenous name adopted by Pérez (Yaku means "source of life") and assured that the indigenous people he knows do not resemble the followers of Yaku.

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