The Ecuadorian opposition leader and former presidential candidate, Luisa González, requested the country’s electoral council on Tuesday (22) to review the presidential votes in 1,729 ballot boxes to prove what claims to have been an electoral fraud.
Electoral authorities and external observers stated that current President Daniel Noboa secured a full term after winning the second round on April 13, but the Citizen Revolution Party requested ballot box reviews that, according to him, the documentation is incomplete or incorrect.
The National Electoral Council (CNE), whose president released the number at a press conference, will now analyze the request and may approve the recount of all, some or none of the ballot boxes.
Opposition does not recognize the result
Luisa González refused to accept the results of his defeat to Daniel Noboa in the second round of presidential elections, stating that “Ecuador lives a more grotesque dictatorship and fraud in his history.”
In his first statement after the disclosure of the results on April 13, which gave him 44.08% of the valid votes, against 55.92% of noboa and 89.59% of the vote count, González announced that he would request the reopening of the ballot box and the recount of the votes.
“I denounce before my people, the media and the world that Ecuador lives a dictatorship and the most grotesque electoral fraud in the history of the Republic of Ecuador,” said González, without presenting evidence that supported his statement.
The candidate stated that “the citizen revolution always recognized defeat when research and accompaniment data showed this.”
“But today we do not recognize the results,” he emphasized.
This content was originally published in opposition from Ecuador calls for review of votes at the ballot box on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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