Ecuador will hold its extraordinary presidential and legislative elections this Sunday, immersed in a deep and complex security crisis that had one of its most tragic episodes with the recent assassination of the presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. More than 13.4 million Ecuadorians are summoned to the polls to elect the new members of the Presidency, […]
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The Ecuadorian authority accepts the candidacy of the substitute for the assassinated presidential candidate
The electoral authority of Ecuador gave free rein to the presidential aspirations of Christian Zurita, the replacement of the assassinated political leader, by dismissing an appeal filed by the ex-president’s leftist force Rafael Correa to prevent his candidacy. Correísmo claimed that Zurita appeared registered with the center-right Renovación Total (Reto) party and not with Construye, […]
What do Ecuadorians vote this coming Sunday?
Ecuador An electoral week begins this Monday that will culminate on Sunday with a new appointment at the polls, where Ecuadorians are summoned to decide on four issues: a new president, a new National Assembly (Parliament) and two plebiscites on Petroleum and mining. After electoral day on February 5, when the local elections were held, […]
Ecuador requests cooperation from the UNDP and the IFC to face the probable phenomenon of El Niño
The president of Ecuadorthe conservative Guillermo Lasso, requested this Thursday support from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the mission that his Government has to prepare the Andean country to face a probable El Niño climatic phenomenon in the coming months. Lasso expressed the need for international cooperation in sectors such as infrastructure, health, […]
Ecuador issues decrees to alleviate debts of university students and businessmen
Ecuadorian President William Lassoissued two decrees to alleviate the debts maintained by university students and businessmen facing financial problems, especially as a result of natural phenomena such as the coronavirus pandemic covid-19 and the El Niño weather phenomenon. Both decrees, which have been signed on Friday, have the nature of economic urgency and must pass […]
Ecuador: Constitutional Court gives way to tax reform but refuses to create free zones
The Constitutional Court of Ecuador approved on Friday a bill with a substantial tax reform and denied another that proposed the creation of free zones as poles of economic development in the country. Both were sent by the president William Lassowhich governs from the dissolution of the National Assembly with the counterweight of the highest […]
Ecuador: Lasso announces that he will not stand for re-election
The president of Ecuador, the conservative William Lassoannounced this Friday that he will not stand for re-election in the extraordinary general elections, whose first round will be held on August 20. In a statement from the Carondelet Palace, seat of the Presidency, Lasso stated that he will not be the presidential candidate of the CREO […]
Ecuador confirms early general elections for August 20
The ecuadorians must go to the polls on August 20 to elect the president and 137 deputies in early elections after the dissolution of congressthe National Electoral Council (CNE) reported on Wednesday. A week ago, the right-wing president Guillermo Lasso dissolved the unicameral National Assembly making use of its constitutional power, which contemplates early elections […]
Lasso reaches his second year in office amid “cross death” in Ecuador
The second anniversary of the conservative Guillermo Lasso in power finds the ruler as a second-rate actor in the political life of an Ecuador immersed in the search for his successor, after he dissolved Parliament under the so-called “cross death”, which contemplates holding early general elections. With a message to the nation in the south […]
Ecuadorian unions warn Lasso against possible anti-worker decrees or privatizations
He Unitary Front of Workers (FUT)the most important trade union center in Ecuadorwarned this Thursday with reacting if the Government of William Lassothat Wednesday dissolved parliamentissued laws against workers or privatization of state companies. José Villavicencio, president of FUT, described as “dictatorial” to the Lasso government for having declared the call “cross death”a legal norm […]