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The brother of former Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós, assassinated shortly after his election in 1981, has demanded that President Rafael Correa quit using pictures of Roldós for political purposes. On Saturday, Correa included an image of Roldós during his weekly...
The National Electoral Council (CNE) has released the rules for the presidential runoff election and announced that the campaign officially begins March 10 and ends March 31. The election is Sunday, April 2. Although the final vote count from the February 19 election...
By Nick Miroff Ecuador will elect a new president April 2, and poll results are not looking good for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. According to a Feb. 23-24 survey of 2,834 Ecuadorans by the Cedatos polling agency, right-wing challenger Guillermo Lasso is leading...
An attorney familiar with the January death of an Italian expat in Malacatos in Loja Province, says his death was a suicide, not the results of injuries suffered during a home invasion. Mauro Burzio, an Italian writer, photographer and anthropologist, died January 23...
Lenin Moreno’s campaign strategy is clear: emphasize the social and infrastructure progress Ecuador has made in the last 10 years but, at the same time, make the case that his presidency will have a different personality than President Rafael Correa’s. “Look at what...
The first poll since the February 19 election gives Guillermo Lasso a 52.1% to $47.9% edge over Lenin Moreno in Ecuador’s presidential race. The poll also shows that 19% of voters are undecided. The poll was conducted by Cedatos Febraury 23 and 24 and has a 3.4% error...
The first thing Guillermo Lasso will do if he is elected president is to declare a fiscal emergency and begin cutting Ecuador’s national budget. The second thing he will do is to call a national referendum to limit term limits to elected office, especially the...
Juan Pablo Pozo, president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), said Friday that his job is to maintain the public trust, not to please political parties. Pozo was criticized Wednesday and Thursday by representatives of Alianza País, the party representing...
Only two days after the election commission officially announced the April 2 runoff, both of Ecuador’s presidential candidates were claiming that the opposition was playing dirty. Even president President Rafael Correa got into the act, suggesting he may invoke a...
While public attention has been riveted to the presidential race since Sunday, voting results also show that Ecuadorians have overwhelmingly approved a referendum to bar politicians and civil servants from having assets, companies or capital in tax havens. With almost...
Although votes are still being counted, the influence of President Rafael Correa’s Alianza País party will be greatly reduced when new members take their seats in April. Alianza, which currently holds 100 of the 137 assembly seats, will have between 67 and 76 seats in...
It’s official: Lenin Moreno and Guillermo Lasso will face off in a presidential runoff election April 2. The announcement was made Tuesday by Juan Pablo Pozo, president of Ecuador’s National Electoral Council (CNE), at a hastily called Quito press conference. It was...
The decision by Ecuador’s election commission to delay release of presidential voting results has put the country’s police and military on high alert for possible civil unrest. In Quito and Guayaquil, police are separating demonstrators, that sometimes number in the...
By Liam Higgins The day after bragging that Sunday’s election was running like a well-oiled machine, Juan Pablo Pozo, president of Ecuador’s National Electoral Council (CNE) reported that it was, in fact, full errors and inconsistencies. It was so bad, it turns out,...
The director of vote counting operations in Guayas Province suspended operations at 5 a.m. Monday morning following what police say were attacks on election workers outside National Electoral Council (CNE) offices in Guayaquil. According to police, supporters of...
As advertised, the outcome of Sunday’s presidential race is coming down to the wire. As of 6 a.m. Monday, with almost 90% of votes counted, it remains unclear whether leading candidate Lenin Moreno will collect 40% of all votes cast for an outright win. Many are...
Under the rules of Ecuador's National Electoral Council (CNE), 11 polling organizations can begin releasing exit poll election predictions after voting concludes at 5 p.m. today. CNE estimates that the first returns of actual votes will come in about 8 p.m. It is...
As Ecuadorians head to the polls today, one question looms large: Will presidential candidate Lenin Moreno capture the 40% of the vote needed to avoid a run-off? Political analysts admit they don’t know the answer, pointing to the unreliability of Ecuadorian polls and...
President Rafael Correa has sent criminal code amendments to the National Assembly that would make leaving the scene of a traffic accident illegal and extend the statute of limitations for sexual abuse of minors. He is also asking for changes that would require...
Ecuador’s presidential and National Assembly campaign ends abruptly at midnight tonight as the three-day “quiet period” begins, continuing through Sunday’s election. More important to most Ecuadorians and expats, however, is the ley seca, or dry law, which goes into...
