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Our special envoy, Jorge Gestoso, provides us with the details ahead of the Ecuador general elections to happen on Sunday, February 2nd. teleSUR

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00:00We now go live to Ecuador with our special envoy, Jorge Gestoso, for all the details on everything that has happened during the day

00:07just hours before polls open in Ecuador. Hello, Gestoso. Welcome again to From the South.

00:18Luis, at this hour, still the main concern is a

00:23denunciation of the presidential candidate, Luisa González, that she posted in the social media

00:31that are concerns that they're establishing,

00:34supposedly, allegedly,

00:37establishing a parallel recount of votes and the armed forces

00:43could or should be involved in that denunciation.

00:47How they think that it might work,

00:51it might work in a way that the telling of the votes

00:56will go first

00:58to that armed forces

01:01computer system parallel to the official voting of the CME, the

01:07National Electoral Council, and afterwards the

01:12Electoral Council, the official, will

01:14report the votes. That has been denounced by Luisa González, the candidate, the

01:22main opposition candidate, as

01:26inconstitutional, very worrisome, and

01:28absolutely an aberration to

01:32democratic process. We were talking to some analysts before and

01:38analysts were mentioning that

01:40there has been, in the past, some concerns about the

01:45existence of a parallel

01:48computer system to the official voting, but we're not at that point involving the armed forces, so

01:57there's still a big question mark if that could be true, if that could be taking place,

02:04if that will be taking place, in which way it's going to be

02:08processed. The issue here is that this very moment, Luis, this is the subject,

02:14this is the talk of the town. Again, the

02:18procedure is tomorrow, the polls are opening early in the morning, by five o'clock they will be closing, and

02:25according to the president of the Electoral National Council,

02:30the first

02:33trend of the voting is going to be announced around 90 minutes later, around

02:406.30 in the evening, so we are following

02:45very, very closely everything that's going on from here to the end of the journey tomorrow. Luis.