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Ecuador’s Election Commission: Second round of voting to be held in presidential election
On the evening of August 20, local time, the National Electoral Commission of Ecuador held a press conference and announced that according to the statistics of 65.96% of the votes cast, no one won the first round of voting and the second round of voting will be held.
According to the current statistical results, the top two votes are the presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez of the Civil Revolutionary Party and Daniel Noboa, the presidential candidate of the campaign alliance “National Democratic Action”, with a vote rate of 33.15% and 24.12%. The two will start a second round of competition on October 15, when the one with the most votes will win the election.
Ecuador will hold a presidential election on August 20, and the polling stations will be open to the public at 7:00 a.m. that day and will last for 10 hours. On that day, the national security situation in Ecuador was stable, and no large-scale violence occurred. Ecuador has deployed about 100,000 police and soldiers across the country to maintain law and order.
(Headquarters reporter Gao Xue Wang Bo)
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2023-08-21 05:18:00