The elections in Ecuador close with 82.26% participation, according to the Electoral Council

He National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador confirmed this Sunday that 82.26% of voters registered for the presidential and legislative elections this Sunday came to exercise that right, which represents an abstention of 17.74%.

The president of the CNE, Diana Atamaint, in a press conference after the closure of the polling stations, and after remarking that it did not happen “not a single incident” during voting day, he insisted that the influx of voters to polling stations in the national territory “has remained in the historical range”.

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“We congratulate the Ecuadorian people for going en masse to the polls to decide who will be the new authorities” of the country, remarked Atamaint, who extended his gratitude to the nearly 90,000 police and military personnel who provided security during the day.

“Not a single incident that could affect democracy was recorded”added the president of the CNE after remarking that the electoral results would begin to flow from 7:30 p.m. local time (00:30 GMT on Monday); that is, two and a half hours after the closing of the polling stations.

Atamaint asked Ecuadorians to wait for the results “quietly” and through official information channels, such as the website of the CNEthe applications for mobile phones with Android system and the social networks of the institution.

Slightly more than 13.4 million Ecuadorians were empowered to designate the new or ruler of the country at the polls, as well as 137 members of the National Assembly (Parliament).

In parallel, Ecuadorians voted in a national plebiscite that seeks to prohibit oil activities in Block 43-ITT, one of the most important deposits in the country, located in the Yasuní National Park, a biosphere reserve in the heart of the Amazon. from the country.

The voters of the Metropolitan District of Quito also had to participate in a popular consultation against mining in the Chocó Andino, a natural space classified as a biosphere reserve since 2018 by Unesco, which is located in the northwest of Quito.

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Source: Elcomercio

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