politics and they ve gained the upper hand. dressed in white and calling for peace, fernando villavicencio s daughter cast her vote, remembering a dad who was also her best friend. translation: he was beautiful, powerful, kind, a giant, one of my best friends. we are living in a powerful historic moment here in ecuador. so many people who didn t care about politics are upset, and they are thinking, if i don t do something for my country, for myself, then nothing will change and the mafia will come and dominate us . for ecuadorians going to vote, security was high on the risk of priorities. i think right now, there s a lot of violence in the country. things are very complicated and after the death of villavicencio, i think we need to unite. leftist candidate luisa gonzales won the most votes, pledging social welfare programmes including
of soldiers and a bullet proof curtain to be able to vote, you realise democracy s in danger. i voted with courage , says this candidate, running in place of fernando villavicencio, the politician shot dead earlier this month. ecuadorians are still reeling from the attack on mr villavicencio, a journalist turned politician who was outspoken on corruption and organised crime, murdered as he left a campaign event. ecuador was once a peaceful country. but in the past few years, colombian and mexican drug cartels vying for lucrative routes have taken advantage of the struggling state and corrupt politics and they ve gained the upper hand. dressed in white and calling for peace, fernando villavicencio s daughter cast her vote, remembering a dad who was also her best friend. joining me now is andrea gonzalez nader, vice? presidential candidate who was running with presidential candidate
daughter cast her vote, remembering a dad who was also her best friend. andrea gonzalez nader was the vice presidential candidate who was running with presidential candidate fernando via vicencio candidate fernando villavicencio before he was assassinated earlier this month. she told me about her experience of the subsequent election campaign. it was very very hard and i think it s the hardest political campaign we ve ever had in ecuador. i don t remember ever having this level of violence. we come up to be the third country in latin america next to mexico and colombia to have a murder of this magnitude. they murdered a presidential candidate of the brink of the presidential debate and after that it all became a nightmare. the