Ecuador's Electoral Council modifies elections to same date for presidential debate

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Ecuador's National Electoral Council (CNE) recently made a significant change by aligning the start of the electoral campaign with the date of the presidential debate, March 23. teleSUR

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00:00National Electoral Council of Ecuador modified the calendar of the second round of elections

00:14and moved forward the official start of the campaign to Sunday, March 23, the same day

00:19of the debate between the candidates.

00:22The current president of Ecuador and candidate for National Democratic Action, ADN, Daniel

00:28Novoa and the candidate of the Citizens' Revolution Movement, Luisa González, face

00:32again on Sunday in a debate for the ballotage to be held next April 13.

00:38In 2023, during the first debate, González came as a favourite after being in first place

00:44in the first round with 33.61% of the votes against Novoa's 23.47%, although it was

00:52he who ended up winning the election in the second round.

00:56On Sunday's debate, education, health and social security, crime and security, economy

01:03and employment, as well as governance, will be the issues to be discussed in the mandatory

01:08meeting.

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