By motorcycle or on foot. Uniformed National Police officers guard the interior and part of the exterior of electoral precincts in the northern area of Guayaquil this Sunday, February 5, during the 2023 elections.
The city is within the areas where special operations will be carried out due to the levels of insecurity.
In 162 venues of the Guayaquil Metropolitan District (DMG)El Oro, Esmeraldas, Los Ríos, Manabí, Santa Elena and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas and Guayas, control actions will be reinforced.
In the José Martínez Queirolo basic fiscal school, in the Juan Montalvo cooperative, the police agents carry out the rounds in pairs or in groups of up to four.
After carrying out the tours, the uniformed officers are placed at the main doors of the enclosures. In this educational unit, the Vote Receiving Boards (JRV) were installed at approximately 07:00.
María Carlota Pérez walked to the establishment to exercise her right to vote.
She lives about six blocks from the school, attended without a bag and only with her ID in hand to avoid being a target of crime. ”Better safe than sorry, I don’t want to be mugged and scared for coming to votethe woman said.
Likewise, José Murillo went to the Ficoa de Montalvo Fiscal Educational Unit to vote with his wife. “You see policemen only up to the entrance and we would like some of them to be at least one or two blocks around because going out they can rob us,” said the user.
In the precincts, the police are articulated together with the military force to control public order. The latter guard, above all, the interior of polling places and monitor the development of the day.
The Juan Montalvo cooperative is part of District 2.
In this constituency, there is a total of 730,214 voters from the Tarqui and Pascuales parishes. In Tarqui, one of the most populated parishes, sectors such as Colinas de la Florida, El Cóndor, Juan Montalvo, Kennedy, La Florida, La Prosperina, Lomas de la Florida, Socio Vivienda, Martha de Roldós, Nueva Prosperina, Quinto Guayas stand out. , Samanes, Tarqui and Urdenor. There are 118 electoral precincts and 2,107 polling stations.
Problems in the installation of JRV in Mount Sinai
Until 9:30 a.m., at the San Ignacio de Loyola de Monte Sinai campus, the women’s boards number 2 and 3 had not been installed due to a lack of ballot boxes to deposit the votes.
At that site, lines of more than 300 people seeking to exercise their right to vote were observed.
Shouts and claims were registered due to the delay in setting up the polling stations, almost three hours after the opening of election day.
As indicated in that facility, since 07:00 officials of the National Electoral Council (CNE) have been contacted to find out what was the reason that delayed the arrival of the material.
In this sector, one of the most conflictive and violent, the voters request that a broader deployment of police and military personnel be made.
The uniformed, as in the north, are located inside and in front of the enclosures.
Mount Sinai is part of Pascuales, which is home to 225,904 voters. Areas such as Bastión Popular, Paraíso de la Flor, Flor de Bastión, Balerio Estacio, Sergio Toral, Ciudad de Dios and many other neighboring cooperatives are located in that parish. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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