Ecuador | Vote counting underway in presidential runoff elections - video Dailymotion

TeleSUR special envoy Jorge Gestoso updates on the presidential runoff election taking place this Sunday in the South American country. teleSUR

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00:00And for more context of these election days in Ecuador, we will be back with our special

00:06envoy in the country, Jorge Gestoso, for more. Jorge, hello. What else can you tell us today

00:13about this electoral runoff and after the polling stations were closed?

00:19Well, one hour and a half has already gone by, and we can see some indications from the

00:28center of computation of the voting that's from the National Electoral Council, because the

00:36information of the votes start to come right to that center and mostly are starting to show in

00:46different screens from different areas of the country that voters are coming from. So we're in

00:53the process of the tallying of the votes and according to the precisely the center of the

01:01national electoral voting, the trend that they could see that could be irreversible could be

01:09around 9 p.m., so in about two hours and a half. In the meantime, we could hear in the streets

01:17cars just with Claxon trying to celebrate. We don't know which side of the two candidates are

01:28celebrating. It's too early. They don't have any special information. But I mean, there is that

01:33atmosphere that's out of a trend in the city of people excited, looking forward to get a winner.

01:43And so far, once again, what has been that decree of President Lloboa to decide that seven provinces

01:56were under state of emergency because of internal commotion that internal commotion did not take

02:05place, are not taking place. So basically, it's seen as a strategy in the campaigns because in those

02:13provinces were her rival. And Luisa Gonzalez was performing better than him. 83%, as you were mentioning,

02:22was a percentage of the people voting a little bit better than the first round. So again, there is a

02:31lot of expectation and probably you can see some noises of fireworks that are already being displayed

02:39in this capital, Quito. So we are following very closely what we are learning to share it as soon as we get it

02:48with you. We get back to you now. Well, thank you very much, Jorge, for your information. We'll be back

02:55with you as soon as we can. Thank you.