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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00:00and on this topic we have our special envoy to ecuador jorge gestoso with more information
00:07hello jorge do you hear me
00:11yes absolutely and we are just counting the minutes that are left to be the closing of the
00:19session it's five o'clock the closing of the polls we are talking about less than an hour and a half
00:26from now the situation has been of denunciation of the decree of the president daniel loboa of declaring
00:36seven provinces of the country like in the state of emergency and the most important the main
00:45indigenous organization called conae in this country has issued a communique and i want to try to
00:54translate it from spanish that was the how upset was the reaction it says no more have a supposed
01:05internal commotion in provinces where the votes are not favorable to him the reason that he's saying
01:14that he stated that decree was because there are supposedly commotion and they question absolutely
01:23that they say that and i continue to quote the words of the conaille this strategy authoritarian
01:31strategy compromises gravely the integrity of the democratic system in ecuador and put at risk the
01:43transparency of the transparency of the vote and continue it says noboa wants to put the hand grab
01:52the elections with the bene placid of the national electoral council we refuse this maneuver anti-democratic
02:05in the case of the rival of the president candidate noboa we're talking about luisa gonzalez she has said that
02:12they're expectant and that using that word in spanish expectante because they have serious doubts
02:20about the transparency of the process and that's exactly what we are trying to look very closely how
02:28it's going to develop the counting of the votes when in less than an hour and a half the polls close
02:3541 according to the national electoral votes the national electoral council i should say was voting
02:43at midday 41 and there were 17 million and 600 and something voters that was asked to vote because
02:55vote here is mandatory we get back to you now thank you for the information we'll be back with you as soon as we can thank you very much