- 12 Feb 2021 01:57
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It looks like Guillarmo Lasso - the banker candidate who used to work for Coca Cola - will face off against first-round winner Andres Arauz, from the left-wing UNES party that Rafael Correa successfully headed recently.
Arauz won the first round with about 33% of the votes, while both Lasso and Eco-socialist-Pachakutik party leader Yaku Perez got about 19% each.
To win, a candidate needs at least 40% in the first round (with a minimum 10% lead over anyone else), or 50% plus in the second round.
It appears that the business world didn't want to see Arauz face off against Yaku Perez.
You know, because international finance has created so many beautiful creatures.
Telesur wrote:Ecuador: CNE Now Has Guillermo Lasso as Arauz's Runoff Opponent
The elections on February 7 in Ecuador still do not give a clear second place, amid allegations from Yaku Perez of fraud.
The update of the vote recount in Ecuador changed the possible opponent of Andres Arauz in the second round of elections on April 11.
With just over 1,100 tally sheets (less than 3 percent) left to be accounted for in Ecuador's presidential elections, new data from the Andean country's National Electoral Council now place banker Guillermo Lasso as the candidate who would occupy second place in the polls and with the right to move on to the April 11 runoff. ...
It looks like Guillarmo Lasso - the banker candidate who used to work for Coca Cola - will face off against first-round winner Andres Arauz, from the left-wing UNES party that Rafael Correa successfully headed recently.
Arauz won the first round with about 33% of the votes, while both Lasso and Eco-socialist-Pachakutik party leader Yaku Perez got about 19% each.
To win, a candidate needs at least 40% in the first round (with a minimum 10% lead over anyone else), or 50% plus in the second round.
It appears that the business world didn't want to see Arauz face off against Yaku Perez.
Bloomberg wrote:“From an economic policy perspective, a run-off between Mr. Arauz and Mr. Perez would be like a beauty contest between Dracula and Frankenstein,” TPCG Valores SA’s Juan Manuel Pazos and Victoria Faynbloch wrote in a report.
You know, because international finance has created so many beautiful creatures.
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The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange