Candidates will be able to campaign until this Thursday
The electoral campaign of the sectional elections 2023 enters its final stretch. Candidates for mayoralties, prefectures, urban and rural councilors, parish council members, more than men and women candidates for principal and alternate councilors of the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS) They will be able to campaign until this Thursday, February 2.
The elections are this Sunday, February 5, so during this week the campaign will intensify.
The Ecuadorian voters will elect 23 provincial prefects and vice-prefects, 221 mayors, 864 urban councillors, 443 rural councillors, 4,109 members of the parish councils and 7 principal and substitute councilors of the CPCCS.
What you should know
– Find out how many ballots you will receive in the February 5, 2023 election and everything you need to know to be prepared
– What are the functions and powers of prefects, mayors, councilors and parish councils in Ecuador?
Appearances to the Assembly for allegations of corruption and trial of Carrillo
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This week it will be moved in the legislative palace.
The occasional commission created to investigate allegations of alleged corruption in state public companies will meet this Monday to hear and approve the information requests they will make
As of Wednesday, February 1, the commission is expected to receive authorities, current officials, former public servants, private businessmen, and technical experts linked to the subject.
Assemblywoman Viviana Veloz (UNES) reported that the president William Lasso will be called to appear before the commissionalthough the attendance of the representative is not mandatory.
The political trial of former Interior Minister Patricio Carrillomotivates other appearances in another commission: the Audit.
This commission has five days to conduct the trial. There are three requests that were unified: two for their actions in the protests of June 2022 and for the murder of María Belén Bernal, last September.
On the murder of Bernal, the commission expects to receive this Monday the 30th, starting at 10:00, Elizabeth Otavalo, Bernal’s mother; the head of the Attorney General’s Office, Diana Salazar; Juan Pablo Albán, member of the United Nations (UN) Committee against Enforced Disappearances, among other activists and leaders of civil society groups.
On Tuesday and Wednesday representatives of indigenous organizations and authorities are summoned for what happened in the protests last June.
New admission process to access 14 public universities
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The second step in the admission process for public higher education for this 2023 period will be launched as of this Wednesday, February 1.
The Senescyt indicated that from February 1 to 5 the inscriptions will be made to enter technical and technological institutes or fourteen public universities in Ecuador.
In this link You will be able to know which are those universities and know what the admission process is like. (Yo)
Source: Eluniverso
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