Since 2008, the youth of 16 and 17 years old can voluntarily vote in all electoral processes in the country. However, for the presidential election on August 20, some of these are teenagers They will not be able to vote to elect the next president. This was not an arbitrary decision and there is a clear reason for it.
As a result, 282 thousand young people who have reached the age of 16 cannot vote in early elections they do not appear on the electoral roll, which is the same for this election as was used for the partial elections last February and contains the names of 13.4 million voters, including those registered abroad. For this reasonthe youngest voters will be 17 years old.
From July 4 to August 3, the CNE will inform the members of the polling stations
The National Electoral Council has reported that there was no time for the censuswill therefore be used July of the year 2022This means those who have met 16 years between That date and the May 24, 2023, when the call came early electionsare not part of the list that will be available in the country’s constituencies.
In Ecuador, voting is compulsory for persons over the age of 18 and up to the age of 65.
Early elections will take place next Sunday, August 20, the day on which Ecuadorians must go to the polls to exercise their right to vote. On this occasion, the citizens will elect the next president and vice president (whose term expires in 2025), members of the assembly and, in addition, they will respond to the plebiscite on YasunÃ.
Source: Eluniverso
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