The National Electoral Council (CNE) has announced the first quick count of the electoral day in Ecuador, announced a preliminary result of the presidential candidates, which would confirm the second round and the victory of the leftist Andrés Arauz. CNE President Diana Atamaint, has communicated the results with 2,425 minutes scrutinized. According to these figures, Arauz would take the victory with 31.74 percent of the votes, although it would be far from the 40 percent necessary to avoid a second round. Arauz, however, has influenced in a press conference from Quito that «our role in this first electoral round is confirmed, with a sufficiently wide and long margin in front of the others; Our simulation models also show us that we are going to have a substantial number of assembly members that will allow us to have adequate governance. ”Secondly, and contrary to what the exit polls published after the closing of the vote, the indigenista Yaku Pérez would have obtained 20.05 percent of the votes, thus moving to a potential second round. In third place, although with a slight difference with Pérez, would be the conservative Guillermo Lasso, who would have obtained a 19, 85 percent. However, and although he would occupy third place, Lasso has assured after the publication of the CNE data this Sunday night that he will be in the second presidential electoral round. “The result of the quick count puts us in the second round (…) to the supporters that we remain calm, when we see 100 percent of the minutes scrutinized, it will be reconfirmed that we are in the second round.Despite the polls, Pérez had already assured that “we went to the second round”, before the publication of the CNE data, according to ‘El Comercio’. 36.3 percent of votes, while Lasso achieved 21.7 percent support, while Pérez would have received 16.7 percent, while the study by Cedatos da Arauz 34.94 percent of support, versus 20.99 percent for Lasso. Pérez would stand at 17.99 percent. In the event that no one wins more than 40 percent of the votes with an advantage of 10 percentage points, on April 11 the candidates will go to a second round. From the polls, followers of Pérez’s party, Pachakutik – the political arm of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) – have taken to the streets of Quito to denounce an alleged electoral fraud. In fact, Pérez has added in a message on Twitter that «tonight, if necessary, we will sleep on the outskirts of the CNE to ensure that the Ecuadorians’ decision is respected. The people gave us their support and the official results have been more than demonstrated. ”All the candidates are showing doubts regarding the validity of the CNE’s quick count.
