QUITO, May 28 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Preparations for early elections in Ecuador marked the political scenario in the week that ends today.
On Thursday, the National Electoral Council (CNE) officially called citizens to participate in the general elections, to choose a new president and 137 assembly members, which will take place next August 20, and the probable runoff would be, if necessary, on October 15.
The elected candidates will be sworn in between September and November 2023, and will be in office until May 2025, when new general elections will be held, as planned.
Until Friday, five pre-candidates had confirmed their interest in the presidency in view of the electoral process after the current president, Guillermo Lasso, dissolved Congress.
This week, the leader of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), Leonidas Iza, joined the list of candidates for the presidency with the full support of his organization.
Previously, economist Jan Topic, proposed by the right-wing Social Christian Party (PSC); lawyer Yaku Pérez, representing the alliance between the Socialist Party, the Popular Unity, Democracy Yes and We Are Water movements, had already done so.
Likewise, former Assemblymen Fernando Villavicencio and Daniel Noboa, as well as former Vice President Otto Sonnenholzner, all of them from the right wing, were nominated.
However, the greatest expectations whirl around the nomination of the Revolución Ciudadana (RC) movement, led by former president Rafael Correa and considered the one with more support at this moment at national level. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA
