*Authorities announces runoff election next April 13th with over 90% of votes counted
*Candidate Luisa Gonzalez describes electoral result as a great victory
*General elections take place amidst security, political and social crisis
*Candidate Luisa Gonzalez describes electoral result as a great victory
*General elections take place amidst security, political and social crisis
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00:00Ecuador citizens went Sunday to the polls in the first round of the general elections with over 92% of the votes counted
00:06Candidates, we've got Lisa Gonzalez and Daniel Novoa go to a runoff next April 13th
00:12We go live with our special envoy in the country Jorge Gestoso for the latest. Welcome Jorge from the south
00:24Luis it has been technically a tie
00:28Between the two main candidates in the election first round of the elections here in Ecuador
00:3644% practically each of the two candidates the president candidate Daniel Novoa and the challenger
00:43Luisa González from the Correís mo
00:46only
00:47Half a point half a percentage point
00:510.5 percent a little bit even less than 0.5 percent
00:55separates Novoa and
00:58Luisa
00:59González it's going to be as you said a runoff on the 13th of April of April. I'm sorry
01:05It's about two months away
01:07Another thing that is very interesting is that now it has been clear that the results last night result
01:15has been
01:17interpreted as a victory in terms of Luisa González and
01:22in between lines we clearly
01:25Understand that has been a real defeat for the president candidate Daniel Novoa. Why so because
01:32President Novoa was already before the closing of the polls
01:37organizing
01:39Statement in a hotel inviting all his followers to join him and he was going to be giving a speech
01:47suddenly that
01:49Event has been canceled. He didn't talk at all
01:53He didn't make any press conference any
01:57Statement anything at all. He disappeared while on the other hand
02:02the candidate of the opposition in this case reason Gonzalez was talking to the press was giving a press conference was
02:11Mentioning that for her it was a clear victory
02:15another results from last night election
02:19The third place was Leonidas Issa is a candidate of the indigenous movement
02:24The party is Pachacuti. He obtained the
02:295.6 percent of the votes the fourth place was Andrea Gonzalez with
02:352.6 percent of the votes and 12 out of the
02:4016 candidates that were participating
02:43Not even reach 1% of the votes
02:46So now
02:48Leonidas Issa and Andrea Gonzalez are going to be courted by the two candidates in order to try to
02:55Make a sort of agreements or alliances in order to reach the 50% plus one vote
03:02It was also the enunciations that
03:05done for the by the president former president Rafael Correa that in reality
03:12the
03:14National
03:15Council of
03:17Voting the official
03:19Organization and see the Council of the electoral vote the national one
03:25Korea is
03:27denouncing that is not a
03:30completely independent
03:33Judge in this event if not was participating in favor of
03:37Novoa so much so that he in in his account in the X
03:43Follow former Twitter. He mentioned that there are still
03:47six percent of the votes that are being questionable that has to be
03:52Addressed and he believes that that percentage will put the
03:58The challenger we're talking about we said Gonzalez in the first place going to the runoff and in that case
04:05We'll put her as the official winner something that according to Korea
04:10All the elements that are playing in favor of the yellow doesn't want to happen
04:17So very interesting again for the challenger
04:22Risa-gonzalez last night. She had a fantastic victory for the price for the president and
04:30candidate in yellow
04:34Independently
04:35Analysts and pundits believe that was a big defeat. We go back to you Luis
04:46Thank you for the latest details a day after the polls close and this Sunday's general elections
04:52There were millions of Ecuadorians went to exercise their right to vote