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“It may sound pretentious or over the top, but today not only is a new government starting, today a change of political regime begins.” This sentence by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), halfway between a promise and a proclamation, bears the mark of a style of doing, thinking and feeling politics. Spoken in the inaugural speech of the six-year term in front of a crowd in the Zocalo of the capital, the politician who began his career in the 1970s is a body in his own right, he was part of the dissident current of the PRI that has Giving birth to the PRD in the late 1980s in 2018, he came to the presidency of the country.
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Supported by former President Rafael Correa, candidate Andrés Arauz is expected to lead the vote in the first round of the Ecuadorian presidential election, according to polls at the end of the polls and the first poll data.
At 11 p.m. this Sunday (7), with 7.97% of the polls deleted, he was the most voted, with 33%. His rivals Guillermo Mendoza and Yaku Perez totaled around 19%, in a tight competition for second place.
The result will be a victory for Rafael Correa, who ruled Ecuador from 2007 to 2017.
The advertisement for Arauz’s candidacy with Correa as vice-president was even ready, on posters bearing both surnames and the hashtag # BinomiodaEsperança. The plan was to put into practice the same strategy Cristina Kirchner used in 2019. To get around the high rejection of her name, Argentina placed moderate Alberto Fernández at the top of the poll. With this, Peronism won.
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Indigenous leader Yaku Pérez, who is contesting vote by vote with banker Guilherme Lasso for a second round of the presidential election in Ecuador, denounced Monday (8) an alleged attempt at fraud aimed at excluding him from the race.
With 98.70% of the votes counted, according to the National Electoral Council (CNE), economist Andrés Arauz, political heir to former socialist president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), appears as the winner of the first round, which s ‘is held on Sunday (7), with 32.12% of the vote.
Next come Pérez, with 19.96%, and Lasso, with 19.57%.
“He’s freaking out that we’re going into the second round,” he accused, referring to Correa.