Elections in Ecuador: controls slow down – 25/03/2019

Candidates in the election of mayors of this Sunday in Ecuador maintain Monday caution on the results by the low percentage scrutinizedand because the count is slower than expected.

The centrist candidate Jorge Yunda led on Monday morning the recount of the votes of the mayor of Quito and the social-Christian Cynthia Viteri, Guayaquil, with a scrutiny of 28% and 33.15%, according to the National Council. Electoral (CNE).

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Jorge Yunda of Centro Democrático (CD) won 23.01% of the vote, followed by Luisa Maldonado, a relative of former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017), with 19.4%.

In third place is the one who seemed the favorite in the polls in Quito, the ex-general of the army and the former mayor Paco Moncayo, with 17.11%.

Ecuador held "peaceful" elections on Sunday, after which former President Correa, who lives in Belgium, will know if he's still a figure in politics as a result of the struggle with President Lenin Moreno who divided the ruling party and the left.

The eyes are set on Quito, until here headed by politician Mauricio Rodas, center-right.

In Guayaquil, the result seemed clearer and the social-Christian party celebrated Viteri's victory on Sunday night, despite the fact that the vote was also relatively low, at only 33.15%.

Viteri, lawyer, led the poll with 52.8%, followed by the example of the province of Guayas, Jimmy Jairala with 32.01% of the Democratic Center.

In the Andean city of Basin (South), where more than 76.4% of the votes were counted, Pedro Palacios, of Alianza Azuay, is in the lead with 28.5%, followed by Jefferson Pérez, of the Renace movement, with 22.02% and former Mayor Marcelo Cabrera, with 19.5%.

A source from the CNE told Efe that the results of the elections at the town hall will be known from 10:00 local time (at noon in Argentina) this Monday, and that the rest of the elections that took place this Sunday could take even longer.

Ecuadorians went to the polls today to elect 5,675 local authorities and their alternates between mayors, prefects, urban and rural councilors and ward council members in the country, where the electoral census comprises 13,261,994 persons eligible to vote.

The seven members and the equal number of deputies of the Council of the citizen participation (Cpcc) were also elected, which will replace the current one, of transitory nature, whose declaration has ratified a popular consultation held on February 4, 2018.

The CCPC is the body that chooses Ecuador's supervisory authorities from other state powers, such as the Attorney General or the Comptroller.

In total, more than 81,000 applications were registered with the CNE, a historic record this prevented the vote throughout the day and also the control.

Although several companies have registered to conduct exit surveys, the results were not finally revealed, which, added to the technical problems to view the statistics on the CNE website, left Ecuadorian citizens in uncertainty.

Source: EFE