Our colleague and TeleSUR special correspondent Jorge Gestoso brings us details of the presidential elections held in Ecuador last Sunday, April 13.
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00:00We are now again live to Ecuador with our special envoy Jorge Gestoso to have all the details of everything that has happened so far this Monday after the electoral process of Sunday.
00:09Hello Gestoso, welcome again to From the South. What can you tell us? What's news in Ecuador?
00:14Well, at this hour, inside the Revolución Ciudadana, the Citizenship Revolution, the name of the party of the candidate Luisa Gonzalez, they are working already to try to gather all the information that they need in order to present to the National Electoral Council in order to bring the proof that they understand that will be documented,
00:44that it has been a fraud according to the candidate Luisa Gonzalez, and she said it is an incredible fraud, the size, the largest of the country.
00:56She is asking also for a recount, and also the president, Rafael Correa, the former president, that is basically the founder of the party Revolución Ciudadana,
01:08is saying that he also endorsed the denuncement of Luisa Gonzalez. Definitely, it has been around the world, many, many, many countries that they have shown their support of Luisa Gonzalez,
01:26and in that case also they are bringing up the situation of democracy in our region, where many, many times the elite, the oligarchy is still running the country.
01:41That is a typical case, for example, of Peru, where it has been the case of the former president Pedro Castillo,
01:50that has been, through a law firm, received a soft coup, a parliamentary coup d'etat.
01:59We were talking here with different analysts and experts, and they believe that if you want the price of the market that is going to be difficult,
02:15that the path to present to the National Council is going to be slow, and the proofs are going to be clear,
02:24in order to basically define or bring to the attention that the result has been absolutely way far from reality.
02:34So, things are moving slowly but along, and the denunciation is still very much like and kicking.
02:42We get back to you now.
02:46Thank you, Gestoso, for the latest information on everything that is happening right now in Ecuador.
02:50We're going to stay in touch with the upcoming news brief to continue following up everything that is developing over there.