Indigenous protesters in Ecuador demand presidential vote recount
Hundreds of protesters backing presidential candidate Yaku Perez call for recount outside electoral council offices in Quito.
Members of Indigenous communities and supporters of Ecuador's presidential candidate Yaku Perez march in Quito on February 23 [Santiago Arcos/Reuters]
23 Feb 2021
Hundreds of Indigenous protesters rallied outside the offices of Ecuador’s electoral council in Quito, the capital, on Tuesday to demand a recount of this month’s presidential vote.
Third-place finisher Yaku Perez, an Indigenous environmental activist, has been walking through the country to denounce what he calls the manipulation of poll statements.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) said on Sunday that the final results of the February 7 poll showed right-wing candidate Guillermo Lasso had won 19.74 percent support to narrowly edge out Perez, who got 19.39 percent.
Lasso, a former banker, will face Andres Arauz, a protege of former President Rafael Correa, in an April presidential runoff. Arauz won the first round with 32.72 percent of the vote.
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“Yaku is a leader and worker just like us, he walks together with us,” Rosa Salinas, 58, told the Reuters news agency from the rally in Quito.
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By Michael Otto posted on February 23, 2021
Ibarra, Ecuador
Feb. 19 — Almost 10 million voters, a record 81% of those eligible, went to the polls Feb. 7, despite the pandemic, to choose among 16 candidates in Ecuador’s presidential elections. The two top vote-getters will compete in the April 11 runoff elections. No candidate received enough votes to win in the first round.
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Ecuador elections – The calm before the storm
By Michael Otto posted on February 23, 2021
Ibarra, Ecuador
Feb. 19 — Almost 10 million voters, a record 81% of those eligible, went to the polls Feb. 7, despite the pandemic, to choose among 16 candidates in Ecuador’s presidential elections. The two top vote-getters will compete in the April 11 runoff elections. No candidate received enough votes to win in the first round.
Three center-left parties got 70% of the votes.
Andrés Arauz, representing a continuation of the movement led by former President Rafael Correa, came in first place with 32.7% of the vote. Arauz is a former minister in the government of Correa running for the progressive Union for Hope-Central Democratic Party (UNES-CD).
Lawyer Dr. Yaku Pérez came in third with an unprecedented 19.4% of the vote for his Patchakutik party (PK), which represents the Indigenous Movement and demonstrates mass support for the goals of the uprising.
Entrepreneur Xavier Hervas, the Tik-Tok candidate, was the biggest election surprise, capturing many of the youth. He came in fourth with 15.7% of the vote for the Izquierda Democratica (ID), which identifies as a social-democratic party.
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https://www.workers.org/2021/02/54633/
