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There is an agreement for the electoral recount in Ecuador.
A vibrant political day has closed in Quito
with a Solomonic decision taken by the National Electoral Council (CNE), by the two candidates in the running for the second ballot post and by the mission of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Finally
, 100% of the votes will be counted in the Guayas coast and 50% in 16 of the 24 provinces of the country
, as requested by Yaku Pérez, the indigenous candidate who has denounced alleged irregularities.
In Guayaquil, the second city of the country and the capital of Guayas, the greatest anomalies occurred, according to the indigenous movement.
A
special review mechanism
will be available for the process
and a statistical study will not be discussed.
It will be accompanied by a citizen oversight and will be followed by the CNE communication channels.
"The important thing is that the Ecuadorian people live in peace and that the electoral process is a process for which there is no doubt," said conservative Guillermo Lasso at the end of the conclave.
The country remained in suspense this Friday until the agreement was reached.
And what he witnessed is another unprecedented event in
an electoral process in which almost everything seems to fit.
First it was a disconcerting campaign in the midst of the pandemic and then a closed count for five days with minimal differences between the two candidates called to contest the presidency with
Andrés Arauz,
chosen by former president
Rafael Correa
to regain power.
The meeting at the summit between Pérez and Lasso was held by the CNE itself in Quito, in the presence of the OAS mission.
"Whoever goes to the second round needs the moral and legal authority to defeat Correismo", both agreed, with very similar words in their calls for common interest against the "totalitarian model" imposed in his day by former President Rafael Correa.
At that time the counting of the electoral records was almost finished,
exceeding 99.65%,
the minimum advantage of Lasso already consolidated by only 34,000 votes and 0.36% of the ballots: 19.74% for the right-wing and 19 38% for the Pachakutik candidate, both below Arauz's 32.70%.
Supporters of the Ecuadorian presidential candidate Yaku Pérez wait this Friday in front of the headquarters of the National Electoral Council.José JácomeEFE
Hours before the summit, the judicialization of the elections was a fact:
Yaku Pérez
had presented an appeal to the Constitutional Court to stop the count, convinced that the Correísmo would be cooking a fraud "first with the alterations of the physical results of the ballots and the minutes and second when entering the results in the computer system. This system has already been flawed for years, the Comptroller General has already made severe observations. "
His candidacy has also denounced an alleged electoral fraud to the Prosecutor's Office.
Lasso and Yaku came to the CNE willing to seek a cordial entente that would
unravel the political crossroads
and not affect them in their next political movements.
The Pachakutik candidate raised his initial claims and demanded the recount of all the votes in the 24 provinces of the country and then in 16, not only in the seven that he advanced on Thursday.
Lasso, who had previously extended his hand to him on the sole condition that the decision be within "the legal framework," countered the recount in Guayaquil.
Finally he bowed to the demands of Yaku,
knowing that his chances for April lie in leading an alliance of all anti-Correism.
Both candidates took advantage of such an unexpected platform, under the expectant eyes of the entire country, to develop their own political speeches.
"If there was no fraud I will be the first to say that I was wrong.
But the evidence says the opposite, we have serious doubts," said Yaku.
His rival, sitting on the other side of a large table, replied that
"I am the first interested in the total and absolute transparency of the process."
Lasso insisted on the common objectives of both and warned of the return of a "totalitarian model, violating human rights and freedom of the press."
What at first was moving towards a kind of agreement in the face of the ballot went wrong when Yaku accused Lasso of his actions at the head of the Bank of Guayaquil, which he presided over until 2011.
Too calm for such a stormy territory,
with the radicals of the indigenous movement some of them with a clear correist tendency, watchful eye.
"Carlos Pérez was never Yaku but Yankee Pérez. Small error in the Civil Registry," Correa, meanwhile, tried to ironically, who did not give a single centimeter in his campaign against the indigenous leader.
"With Lasso, the polarization installed in the country would clearly work and Arauz could base his campaign on the traditional left / right confrontation, which has given him such good results in the past. Things would be very different with Yaku, who not only flies the flags of the indigenismo, but also of the left different from the Bolivarian, characterized in Ecuador by its extractivist zeal ", summarized Carlos Malamud, principal investigator of the Real Elcano Institute.
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