TeleSUR special envoy Jorge Gestoso foreshadows what we can expect of this electoral exercise about to happen in Ecuador on Sunday 13th. teleSUR
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00:00And in the context of the presidential runoff in Ecuador on Sunday the 13th we go live with Jorge
00:06Gestosos to bring us what we can expect in Ecuador's presidential runoff. Hello Jorge do you hear me?
00:16Yes we are here following very very closely the events of the day most definitely we are about
00:2348 hours away from the runoff and the atmosphere is completely different this time compared to the
00:31first round where Luisa Gonzalez has much more chances to become the new president of Ecuador
00:40because during the difference two months between the first and the second round that took place
00:47she got the approval the support the endorsement of the movement indigenous movement of Pachacuti
00:56that accounts for about five percent of the votes in the first one we're talking about that 44 percent
01:03was an even result for the two main candidates Luisa Gonzalez and Daniel Novoa 44 percent and the
01:12third candidate was from Pachacuti Leonidas Isa with five percent so if you add up 44 percent from Luisa
01:20and five percent of the indigenous people were closer to the five percent but on top of that she got
01:28another endorsements and that most definitely are putting her in a in a very favorite situation
01:36on the other hand in terms of an unusual unusual thing was that part of their security team from Luisa
01:47Gonzalez has been removed from orders of the president and Daniel Novoa we're talking about a situation
01:56where a country with the highest rating of assassination and violence mostly in the region we're talking about
02:04so far over 2 000 assassinations in the first three months about 27 assassinations a day and that
02:14percentage is about as twice as was in the same period of 2024 so to remove their security guards to the
02:24candidate for the presidency that the polls put here as a favorite candidate it's a very significant
02:34decision from the part of the president candidate Daniel Novoa we are thinking according to what the
02:43national council of electoral says that the results they post here close at 5 pm and they expect that by
02:52around 9 pm they could announce a tendency that could be almost irreversible so if everything goes as expected
03:05before midnight on sunday we will have our results and in that case will be very very close the way we are
03:17following this election because uh definitely there's a big question mark in many areas
03:23but the most important thing is that the denunciation of the analysts is that this election as
03:32the previous elections here in Ecuador in the last eight years it was not taking place with a level field
03:39it was it is an inclined field in favor of the president candidate Daniel Novoa that is not respecting the
03:49institutions that is using the government on his favor that is using also the social networks also with
03:59a limited amount of money we are talking that this is the son of the richest person in the country of the
04:07banana conglomerate the group Novoa that also apples and opens the big question mark that has been
04:15denounced there is the largest export of banana of the country living from a port that is allegedly controlled
04:24by that group and in those bananas are being found in europe containers with cocaine so the big
04:34question mark is until which point the group of Novoa that is related to the candidate is related to that
04:43drug trafficking so we're following all that and we will be sharing it with you throughout the day we'll get back to you now
04:49thank you Jorge for your remark and i will be with you on our next news brief for more information thank you