Ecuador | Over 13 million citizens to vote on Sunday's presidential runoff - video Dailymotion

TeleSUR special envoy Jorge Gestoso foreshadows what we can expect of this electoral exercise about to happen in Ecuador on Sunday 13th. teleSUR

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00:00And in the context of the presidential runoff in Ecuador on Sunday the 13th we go live with Jorge

00:06Gestosos to bring us what we can expect in Ecuador's presidential runoff. Hello Jorge do you hear me?

00:16Yes we are here following very very closely the events of the day most definitely we are about

00:2348 hours away from the runoff and the atmosphere is completely different this time compared to the

00:31first round where Luisa Gonzalez has much more chances to become the new president of Ecuador

00:40because during the difference two months between the first and the second round that took place

00:47she got the approval the support the endorsement of the movement indigenous movement of Pachacuti

00:56that accounts for about five percent of the votes in the first one we're talking about that 44 percent

01:03was an even result for the two main candidates Luisa Gonzalez and Daniel Novoa 44 percent and the

01:12third candidate was from Pachacuti Leonidas Isa with five percent so if you add up 44 percent from Luisa

01:20and five percent of the indigenous people were closer to the five percent but on top of that she got

01:28another endorsements and that most definitely are putting her in a in a very favorite situation

01:36on the other hand in terms of an unusual unusual thing was that part of their security team from Luisa

01:47Gonzalez has been removed from orders of the president and Daniel Novoa we're talking about a situation

01:56where a country with the highest rating of assassination and violence mostly in the region we're talking about

02:04so far over 2 000 assassinations in the first three months about 27 assassinations a day and that

02:14percentage is about as twice as was in the same period of 2024 so to remove their security guards to the

02:24candidate for the presidency that the polls put here as a favorite candidate it's a very significant

02:34decision from the part of the president candidate Daniel Novoa we are thinking according to what the

02:43national council of electoral says that the results they post here close at 5 pm and they expect that by

02:52around 9 pm they could announce a tendency that could be almost irreversible so if everything goes as expected

03:05before midnight on sunday we will have our results and in that case will be very very close the way we are

03:17following this election because uh definitely there's a big question mark in many areas

03:23but the most important thing is that the denunciation of the analysts is that this election as

03:32the previous elections here in Ecuador in the last eight years it was not taking place with a level field

03:39it was it is an inclined field in favor of the president candidate Daniel Novoa that is not respecting the

03:49institutions that is using the government on his favor that is using also the social networks also with

03:59a limited amount of money we are talking that this is the son of the richest person in the country of the

04:07banana conglomerate the group Novoa that also apples and opens the big question mark that has been

04:15denounced there is the largest export of banana of the country living from a port that is allegedly controlled

04:24by that group and in those bananas are being found in europe containers with cocaine so the big

04:34question mark is until which point the group of Novoa that is related to the candidate is related to that

04:43drug trafficking so we're following all that and we will be sharing it with you throughout the day we'll get back to you now

04:49thank you Jorge for your remark and i will be with you on our next news brief for more information thank you