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We interview political analyst, Eduardo Meneses, who’ll analyze the preliminary results of the runoff elections and the several irregularities denounced during this process. teleSUR

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00:00And we go back to the Ecuador's topic because we have Eduardo Menezes to

00:06deepen in what has been the electoral process in Ecuador. Hello, Eduardo. How

00:12are you? Do you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. Thank you. Thank you very much for

00:17the invitation. Thank you for being with us. Well, people is denouncing irregularities

00:23in this process. What can you tell us about it because there have been denouncing fraud?

00:27First of all, the past, before the day of the elections. We know that the

00:36institutions, electoral institutions, are controlled by the president, the actual president who is the

00:48candidate of the right wing for this election. We have seen many irregularities even before

00:54violations of the constitution, like letting the president continue in his functions while he's a

01:03candidate, which means he's the state for the campaign. Many irregularities linked to the electoral

01:14institution forbidding the one of the candidates who was against also the actual president to present,

01:21to be presented in the elections. We have seen many things like change in the places for people,

01:28where people were going to vote in the last minute because of so, so told bad weather and this kind

01:37of things. So there was a lot of suspicions even before the day of the election. And now in the

01:42election, we're seeing, I would say, two things. The first thing is that the projected result of

01:49Luisa Gonzalez, the progressist candidate against Daniel Noah, would be at the end, the same result

01:57that she had in the first round, which is politically totally unlikely. It's very unlikely that she's not

02:03going to sum up any vote from the first round of the election to the second round of the election. So

02:08this is already very suspicious. And then we have had a lot of people denouncing how there are some of

02:16the official votes that have been already put into the system, the counting system, which have not been

02:23signed by any of the authorities who were in the places for the vote, for example. So those are totally

02:29illegal votes. That's one of the examples of the things that we are seeing. And there are many of

02:34those. So that is mainly the scenario right now. And we believe that it could be even worse.

02:40Yeah, you can tell us something about the numbers that CNN has been given of these elections that,

02:48of course, are part of the irregularities that we can see.

02:55Yeah, in terms of the numbers, what we are seeing is, I mean, we already saw that in the first round of

03:01the election where there was not a neutral way of starting adding up the numbers. So the the provinces

03:08where we were the the actual president had more votes was being added first. So there was an impression

03:16that Norboa had a very first, very high first numbers that then were started to become lower and

03:24lower. And at the end of the first round, they were almost totally equal in 44%. Now the numbers we are

03:30seeing right now is they are projecting a result of Luisa Gonzalez around 44% of the votes again,

03:37which is totally not possible. I mean, this is because it doesn't have any political sense to think

03:44that she didn't add any vote from the first round to the second round. So that is one of the main

03:51suspicions while we are speaking of the possibility of fraud.

03:53Yeah, thank you very much, Eduardo, for being with us. Thank you.

04:01Thank you very much for the invitation. Thanks. And we continue with our news brief.

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