On April 26, Ecuador once again realized general elections to choose the President and Vice-president of the country. In addition, they were chosen to mayors and councilmen of all the “cantones” that belongs to the Ecuadoran territory.
For the first time in the Ecuador, in the epoch of return of the democracy, which a candidate presidency won, for the most part, in the first election time. Rafael Correa, reelect president, again governs from Carondelet for decision of 51,08 % of the Ecuadorians.
The victory of Movement Alianza PAIS, party of Correa, also met reflected in the majority of the Legislative Assembly and in the mayoralties of several cities of the Ecuador. For example, in Quito, Augusto Barrera, candidate for the party of the government, won in these elections.
"The people chose a trend of left side and it will not be defrauded ", said the reelect president Correa.
Nevertheless, the representatives of the parties of opposition did not conform to the results. The ex president and candidate for the Partido Sociedad Patriotica (PSP), Lucio Gutiérrez, exposed denunciations of an electoral fraud.
The international organizations who observed the electoral process (EU, OEA, Andean Parliament) indicated that the Ecuador lived a democratic day, but they called the attention of the Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) about of the functioning of the Juntas Intermedias de Escrutinios (JIE), because this system did not make the count of the votes agile.
Five “cantones” of the provinces of Manabí, Guayas, Loja and Zamora Chinchipe repeated the elections because the sympathizers of the parties, to favor and in opposition to the government, they fight and protested on this day. This Sunday they returned to vote and the results of these places wait to be counted officially until this Wednesday.
Despite that the votes are not registered in 100 %, Correa and his party obtains a victory that displaces to other options or trends. This Sunday, the 26th of April, Ecuador chose the continuity of a government of trend of left side that inhales big changes for the country.
