Ecuador Elections 2023: Rivals of candidate Fernando Villavicencio suspend campaigns

Some of the rivals he had for the Presidency of Ecuador the candidate Fernando Villavicencioassassinated this Wednesday in Quitoannounced the suspension of their respective campaigns and called for a pact and unity in the face of the crisis of insecurity and violence that the country is going through.

Shortly after the assassination was confirmed, the candidates Yaku Perez and Jan Topic They publicly announced the temporary suspension of their campaigns in solidarity with the relatives and supporters of the candidate.

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“Outraged by this cowardly murder to Fernando Villavicencio. The least I can do is express my solidarity with his family and militant sympathizers. And that is why I have decided to suspend the electoral campaign”, indicated Pérez, who came third in the 2021 elections, in which William Lasso won the presidency.

Pérez invited his rivals “to leave all the political flags and make a social pact for security”.

“Tomorrow in Quito I invite you to take concrete measures. You can’t continue this. We have to stop the violence”, he stressed.

“We are drowning in a sea of ​​blood”

In a statement to the press, the also candidate Otto Sonnenholzner He referred to the thousands of murders that have occurred in the country in recent months and asked the government of conservative Guillermo Lasso to take action, which last May dissolved the National Assembly (Parliament) by applying the so-called “cross death”, for which he forced this extraordinary call for general elections.

“We do not want more meetings, we do not want more statements, we demand action. He still lacks three months of Government. Act, we are dying, we are drowning in a sea of ​​blood and tears, and we do not deserve to live like this.”, he pointed out in a public claim to the Government, which will end this year and not on May 24, 2025, as planned.

Sonnenholzner assured that Ecuadorians have the right to demand “let them do something The country has gotten out of hand, and we are already in an unbearable situation, as citizens.”.

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urgent call

Like Pérez, Sonnenholzer asked his six rivals for unity.

“I applaud the courage that all of you had to step forward in such difficult moments to want to help change the destiny of the Ecuador. (…) Right now our fight is not for a few votes, the fight of all of us is against crime, against a few thousand miserable people who have us Ecuadorians on our knees“, said.

Sonnenholzner argued that “One can not live this way”.

“Our fight is to defeat them (the criminals). I urgently summon them, and I will call them one by one so that we put down proselytizing attitudes at this moment, so that we put aside this campaign for a while and sit down together, together, to discuss what the future of our country is.“, advertisement.

He invited them to make decisions together that all the applicants later commit to supporting, “because alone, none of us will be able to. If we don’t come together right now, we’re going under”, he warned.

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“Here you have my commitment to support. Not lukewarm cloths, because this is not cured with lukewarm cloths, but firm and hard decisions that put an end to this situation definitively”, he added, pointing out that it is the responsibility of the candidates “set an example of unity”.

In his social networks, Pérez assured that he has already spoken “with all the candidates inviting them to leave the political flag and make a social security pact“, well “the country is shocked by so much violence“, which “we must stop and act with unity”.

Source: Elcomercio

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