Quito, Apr 13 (EFE) .- Citizen participation in the elections of the second presidential round between the Ecuadorian ruler and candidate for the Daniel Noboa re -election, and the correísta Luisa González, It reached 83.76 %, the National Electoral Council (CNE) reported at the close of the voting enclosures.
The president of the CNE, Diana Atamaint, said that the percentage of participation exceeded that of the first electoral round (83.38 %), on February 9, when fourteen candidates were ruled out.
“We congratulate the Ecuadorian people for having massively attended the polls,” Atamaint said by ensuring that the votes were developed “without setbacks” and “totally peaceful.”
Recognized the work of the military and police “for their civic contribution to the successful development” of the Voting day.
Once the polls have been closed, Atamaint pointed out that at 40,791 vote receiving joints in Ecuador begins the scrutiny phase with the presence of the delegates of the political organizations involved, national and international observers and the media, who can use their cell phones.
The CNE prohibited citizens from voting with the cell phone in hand, So 71 people were notified for having photographed the voting ballot and could face fines ranging between 9,870 and 32,900 dollars.
In the first electoral round, Noboa denounced – without public evidence – that supposedly criminal gangs had extorted voters To vote for González, and managed to make the CNE, in a controversial decision, forbid the ballot to vote with the phone in hand, arguing that it could be used to photograph the ballot as proof of the vote.
More than 13.7 million Ecuadorians were summoned to the polls to decide whether they re-elected Noboa for a complete mandate (2025-2029) or return to correism to power, which would turn González into the first woman in the history of Ecuador to win presidential elections.
