CNE announces numerical results confirming the victory in the second round of Guillermo Lasso | Politics News

Unanimously, that is, with the votes of the five members of the National Electoral Council (CNE), the report of the final results of the second electoral round for the President and Vice-President of the Republic was approved on Sunday morning, thus proclaiming the totalized numerical results of April 11, which confirms Guillermo Lasso and Alfredo Borrero as President and Vice-President of Ecuador, with 52.36% of the vote.

The National Electoral Council has completed the examination of 100% of the minutes for the President and Vice-President

The approval of the report and the proclamation of the numerical results took place after the CNE Plenary had known the numerical electoral results of the jurisdictions of Morona Santiago, Pastaza, the United States and Canada, Europe, Asia and Oceania and Latin America, Caribbean and Africa. The reading of these data, during the continuation of the National Public Research Hearing, had no observations from the directors.

As there are no disputes pending, reading the final report of the results of the dignity of President and Vice President of the Republic revealed that 4’656,426 (52.36%) of voters supported Lasso’s candidacy; while Arauz supported him with their vote 4,236,515 (47.64%) people.

In this second electoral round, 174,349 (1.61%) white votes and 1,761,433 (16.26%) votes were counted null. A total of 13,107,457 voters were registered, 39,985 polling stations were activated and a total number of 10,829,823 voters was highlighted.

The vice-president of CNE, Enrique Pita, assured that with 100% of the results the electoral results obtained in the records examined at national level and abroad, an important step has been taken in the democratic life of Ecuador. “It has been shown that we are an honest society that respects honor, dignity and democratic principles.”

Pita pointed out that 2.03% more citizens went to the polls on the day of the April 11 elections and that “only” there was a 6.72% increase in invalid votes in this second the first round of elections on February 7.

From the results known this Sunday morning from the plenary session of the NEC, it was observed that in Morona Santiago, Pastaza, the United States and Canada and Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa the vote favored Guillermo Lasso with 69.21%, 73.37%, 53.27% and 53.35% respectively.

On the other hand, the correista candidate Andrés Arauz obtained only the majority of votes in the electoral jurisdiction of Europe, Asia and Oceania. There Arauz overtook Lasso with 63.59% of the vote, compared to 36.41%.

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Councilor Esthela Acero explained that the two political organizations once proclaimed them results, can use the resources set out in the Code of Democracy. “This electoral process was clean, transparent and the will of the Ecuadorian people expressed at the polls was respected.”

For his part, Councilor Luis Verdesoto explained that once these results have been delivered and regardless of the resources of the appropriate process that arise, CNE has completed its activity, in terms of to the “aggregation of the will of Ecuadorians.”

“This time the prominence ceases to be ours and becomes that of those who were chosen, of which was also elected President of Ecuador for the National Assembly. With this, the basic function of this collegial body ends “, indicated Verdesoto. (I)