Ecuador | Presidential election continues without incidents - video Dailymotion

TeleSUR special envoy Jorge Gestoso updates on the presidential runoff election taking place this Sunday in the South American country. teleSUR

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00:00As we go live with our colleague Jorge Gestoso to bring us what we can expect in Ecuador's presidential runoff.

00:06Hi, Gestoso. Why can't you share with us at this hour?

00:17Alejandra, the polls open at 7, as expected,

00:21and there are 13,700,000 Ecuadorians that are asked to vote.

00:29The vote here is mandatory.

00:32The two candidates, the presidential candidate, Daniel Novoa, has already voted in the morning.

00:38He did it here in Quito, accompanied with his two girls.

00:44And the presidential candidate, Luisa, did so in her native Manaví province.

00:53Luisa González says before the opening of the polls that there were certain irregularities that she expressed their concern.

01:04Also, it has been very clear the concern of the largest organization of indigenous people, the CONAE,

01:10that the decree of state of emergency in seven provinces of the country, including here, Quito,

01:20under the excuse, quote-unquote excuse, of internal commotion.

01:25It was just a strategy because, according to the CONAE, there's no such thing as especially new and improved violence.

01:35It's just business as usual.

01:37So, therefore, they say that that was done in order, as a strategy, in order to deter the possibility that people, electorals,

01:49people who were going to vote for Luisa González, because in some of those provinces and areas where historical Luisa González is very strong,

01:59that could be affected their assistance to the polls.

02:04The polls are expected to close at five, according to the Electoral National Council.

02:12Around 9 p.m., we could have a trend that could be, according to them, an irreversible trend, so who could be the winner.

02:21But there's a lot of question marks, and there's still a lot of incredibility that this is not a fair and clear election.

02:32The opposition had already said that the National Electoral Council is an arm of the presidential party of Daniel Novoa,

02:43and therefore, they have question marks about the objectivity, about especially the transparency of these elections.

02:52We'll get back to you.

02:58Thank you, Gestoso, for all the first-hand information.

03:00We will keep in contact, for sure, throughout the day.