Luisa González and Daniel Noboa will likely appear in run-off, with assassinated candidate Fernando Villavicencio polling in third place with 16% of vote
, who was shot dead as he left a campaign rally this month, was polling in third place with more than 16%.
Whoever wins the second round will only govern for less than a year and a half, completing the unfinished term of outgoing president Guillermo Lasso who called the snap electionAmid a backdrop of rising crime, violence and economic turmoil, official turnout figures show 82% of voters headed to the polls on Sunday, according to the president of the national electoral council, Diana Atamaint, who also described the election as “peaceful and safe” with no reports of violent incidents at polling...
Zurita became the new Construye 25 party candidate just a week before the vote, after the death of Villavicencio. A fellow investigative journalist, he too had received death threats, some attributed to drug cartels linked toChristian Zurita speaks in Quito after voting.“These are difficult and dark moments for the country but we are up to it,” Zurita told journalists.
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