Presidential candidates close campaigns in Ecuador

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Ecuadorian electoral authorities confirmed on Thursday that, a few hours before the elections in the country next Sunday, the closures of the campaigns of the presidential candidacies have taken place. teleSUR

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00:00 In Ecuador, the electoral asylum is enforced after the campaign for the presidential and

00:04 legislative elections of next Sunday, August 20, and the third day.

00:09 From 0 o'clock at time and until after the elections, political propaganda will be forbidden,

00:14 a rule that applies to any act of proletarianism but does not include dissemination in social

00:19 networks.

00:20 Therefore, from midnight on Friday until noon on Monday, the drug law is enforced, which

00:25 suspends the sale, distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages.

00:31 On Friday, half a thousand adults over 50 years of age or persons with physical disabilities

00:36 will exercise their right to participate in the elections through the voto en casa morality.

00:42 The elections are marked by the spiral of violence associated with drug trafficking

00:47 and organized crime, which even claimed the lives of the presidential candidate of the

00:51 against the Rio movement, Fernando Villavicencio, last August 9.

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