This Sunday at 7.00 (14.00 in peninsular Spain) they have opened the voting centers for the second round of the presidential elections of Ecuador, in which the current president, the conservative Daniel Noboa, faces the candidate of the Citizen Revolution Movement, Luisa González.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador has inaugurated the day with an act in which the president of the agency, Diana Atamaint, stressed that this is “a deeply significant day” for the coincidence of the voting day, the day of the Ecuadorian teacher and Ramos Sunday.
The Minister of Government, José de la Gasca, has also intervened, who has appealed to “assume this with maturity, whatever the result.” “Democracy is measured in the ability to accept what the people decide even if we do not like or are uncomfortable,” he argued.
“Today the entire country is pronounced as Supreme Sovereign (…). We must go to the polls without fear and with the assurance that he has no pressure from a corrupt official or a neighborhood gangster,” said Noboa’s representative in the act before asking that the vote is “a party of democracy” and “not of the mafias or narcoterrorism.”
More than 13.7 million Ecuadorians are registered for this Sunday’s vote, including 400,000 residents abroad. The vote is developed between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (seven more hours in peninsular Spain). An hour later CNE will begin to publish the first preliminary results.