Ecuador to hold runoff election next April 13th

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*Authorities announces runoff election next April 13th with over 90% of votes counted *Candidate Luisa Gonzalez describes electoral result as a great victory *General elections take place amidst security, political and social crisis

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00:00Ecuador citizens went Sunday to the polls in the first round of the general elections with over 92% of the votes counted

00:06Candidates, we've got Lisa Gonzalez and Daniel Novoa go to a runoff next April 13th

00:12We go live with our special envoy in the country Jorge Gestoso for the latest. Welcome Jorge from the south

00:24Luis it has been technically a tie

00:28Between the two main candidates in the election first round of the elections here in Ecuador

00:3644% practically each of the two candidates the president candidate Daniel Novoa and the challenger

00:43Luisa González from the Correís mo

00:46only

00:47Half a point half a percentage point

00:510.5 percent a little bit even less than 0.5 percent

00:55separates Novoa and

00:58Luisa

00:59González it's going to be as you said a runoff on the 13th of April of April. I'm sorry

01:05It's about two months away

01:07Another thing that is very interesting is that now it has been clear that the results last night result

01:15has been

01:17interpreted as a victory in terms of Luisa González and

01:22in between lines we clearly

01:25Understand that has been a real defeat for the president candidate Daniel Novoa. Why so because

01:32President Novoa was already before the closing of the polls

01:37organizing

01:39Statement in a hotel inviting all his followers to join him and he was going to be giving a speech

01:47suddenly that

01:49Event has been canceled. He didn't talk at all

01:53He didn't make any press conference any

01:57Statement anything at all. He disappeared while on the other hand

02:02the candidate of the opposition in this case reason Gonzalez was talking to the press was giving a press conference was

02:11Mentioning that for her it was a clear victory

02:15another results from last night election

02:19The third place was Leonidas Issa is a candidate of the indigenous movement

02:24The party is Pachacuti. He obtained the

02:295.6 percent of the votes the fourth place was Andrea Gonzalez with

02:352.6 percent of the votes and 12 out of the

02:4016 candidates that were participating

02:43Not even reach 1% of the votes

02:46So now

02:48Leonidas Issa and Andrea Gonzalez are going to be courted by the two candidates in order to try to

02:55Make a sort of agreements or alliances in order to reach the 50% plus one vote

03:02It was also the enunciations that

03:05done for the by the president former president Rafael Correa that in reality

03:12the

03:14National

03:15Council of

03:17Voting the official

03:19Organization and see the Council of the electoral vote the national one

03:25Korea is

03:27denouncing that is not a

03:30completely independent

03:33Judge in this event if not was participating in favor of

03:37Novoa so much so that he in in his account in the X

03:43Follow former Twitter. He mentioned that there are still

03:47six percent of the votes that are being questionable that has to be

03:52Addressed and he believes that that percentage will put the

03:58The challenger we're talking about we said Gonzalez in the first place going to the runoff and in that case

04:05We'll put her as the official winner something that according to Korea

04:10All the elements that are playing in favor of the yellow doesn't want to happen

04:17So very interesting again for the challenger

04:22Risa-gonzalez last night. She had a fantastic victory for the price for the president and

04:30candidate in yellow

04:34Independently

04:35Analysts and pundits believe that was a big defeat. We go back to you Luis

04:46Thank you for the latest details a day after the polls close and this Sunday's general elections

04:52There were millions of Ecuadorians went to exercise their right to vote

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