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Telesur wrote:Ecuador: CNE Now Has Guillermo Lasso as Arauz's Runoff Opponent
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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. :lol:
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Rightwingers that serve uncle Sam won't leave the new pink tide alone. :lol:

Ecuador’s pseudo-left candidate Yaku Pérez echoes call for military takeover, nullifying election, prosecuting top candidate
An Ecuadorian presidential candidate from a US-backed party, Yaku Pérez, has requested a military takeover and nullification of election results to prevent the popular socialist Correista movement from returning to power.
Ecuador’s third-place presidential candidate, Yaku Pérez Guartambel, has called for direct military intervention in his country’s political system, requesting a purge of electoral authorities and a nullification of the results of the February 7 election that he lost.

Pérez has also demanded that Ecuador’s corrupt and undemocratic Lenín Moreno government immediately issue a legal judgment against the socialist-oriented candidate Andrés Arauz, who won the first round of the presidential election in a landslide, in an effort to disqualify him based on a debunked conspiracy alleging he received money from Colombian socialist guerrillas in the ELN.

The Grayzone has documented how the Pachakutik party of Pérez has received support from the US government, and how the candidate has misleadingly portrayed himself as a progressive environmentalist while pushing for right-wing policies and US-backed coups targeting democratically elected left-wing governments across Latin America.

Given Pérez’s backing of military coups in neighboring countries, perhaps it comes as no surprise that the candidate has echoed a call for a military takeover of his own nation’s democracy.

In a post on his official Facebook page on March 9, Pérez endorsed an extremely controversial article that demands that the Ecuadorian military take over, that Arauz be tried, that all of the members of the National Electoral Council be replaced, and that the first round of the election be nullified.

Academics who signed open letter supporting Yaku Pérez distance themselves from him
In late February, a group of prominent academics signed a lie-filled open letter defending Yaku Pérez, outlandishly smearing this present journalist as a “racist and sexist,” and calling for The Grayzone’s factual reporting exposing Pérez to be censored. The Grayzone documented how several of the signatories, like Pérez, supported the US-backed far-right military coup against Bolivia’s democratically elected Indigenous socialist President Evo Morales in 2019.

The Grayzone contacted some of the most prominent signatories with a request for comment, inquiring if they still stand by the letter and support Pérez after his call for a military takeover of his country’s democracy.

Some of the signatories have responded by distancing themselves from Pérez.

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skinster wrote:Rightwingers that serve uncle Sam won't leave the new pink tide alone. :lol:

I was reading about this.

When I very first heard of Yaku Perez, it was through a promo video of him riding a bicycle in the countryside. Like I do every chance I can.

But later, I read that this article by Ben Norton, the same one you quote above.

Because I don't live there myself, I am not in a position to evaluate the propaganda side of the Perez campaign, versus the legitimate grievances his movement might have.

But the article mentions *a lot of USA money and support for his wife and himself.* And the USA doesn't tend to throw money at "Localists" with the common good of their people at heart.

I guess we can expect a lot of these faux popularists now that militarism and starving people to death seem to have peaked as *rich-corporation strategies.*

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