Ecuadorians go to the polls to choose a new President vaticannews.va

Rising unemployment, corruption scandals and the scourge of Covid 19, which has infected more than quarter of a million and killed more than ten thousand Ecuadorians, is the bleak challenge, scenario and landscape, which faces the next President of the country.

According to pollsters, no one will gain the necessary forty percent of the vote and ten percent lead in round one, so it`s on to the second round on April 11th, involving alliances, defections and political deals.
The big two slugging it out, are thirty five year old Andres Arauz of the Democratic Center Party, and sixty five year old Guillermo Lasso, the Candidate of the Creating Opportunities Party, which he himself created in 2013…

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