Villavicencio for the second round was a possibility. In the polls and polls before August 9, 2023, the day he was killed, the correato par appeared first, but without approaching 40% of the effective votes, plus one vote, which would be needed to avoid a second round. Then, a group of four candidates, with minimal differences, not always in the same order, with Villavicencio rising, due to his frontality in the fight against corruption. If he had made it to the second round, he might have been unstoppable.

Above that option was a certainty: the impossibility of silencing him, whether Villavicencio was the next president of the Republic, whether he was an investigator who presented complaints frontally, as he did during the correato despite the persecutions and raids. His work in the Supervisory Commission of the National Assembly was a continuation of his power to investigate and his decisions to denounce.

In recent days, Villavicencio has been working to expose the mafias that are protected by political actors, and that are supported by the same mafias that would seek to consolidate the areas of power in the elections on August 20, 2023. Mafias not only in drug trafficking and prison control, but also in public contracting, mining and energy, with communication networks. Today’s debate was his platform, so that in the coming days he would continue with the formalizations, convinced that he would enter the second round.

Many religiously declare “may he rest in peace” before his murder, but there are also those who “mourn” his death as if he were shedding “crocodile tears”, which with a reflex movement excrete secretions, like tears, when he devours his prey and thus moistens the digestive tract .

I don’t want Villavicencio to rest, but to inspire investigators and anti-corruption fighters.

And it will be vile if they force only the alleged material executors or gangsters in charge from prison, as if they dealt with Villavicencio, when the investigation must be about the electoral forces that inspired and ordered his death, to block the way to the Presidency.

I lived through the tragedy of the death of Jaime and Martha, May 24, 1981, in which they altered material evidence in seven days to construct the report that it was just a plane crash. Subsequent investigations were already based on altered evidence.

On the ballot for August 20, 2023, there will still be a box with the image of Villavicencio, which will be marked, but the real one will be the candidacy of a person determined by his political force. His motto is “choose everything 25”.

Do not vote empty or void, avoid filling in or changing your vote during control, except that void and empty votes are not counted in percentages, only properly filled ones.

And don’t fall for experiments, “killing bullet” or “state currency”, or “digital” or “only pay by phone”, which can lead Ecuador to bankruptcy. (OR)