The proposal includes contributions from members of the National Committee for Electoral Debates, departments of the CNE and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), with the aim of creating a new dynamic that will ensure greater interaction between presidential candidates, the electoral body said.
In addition, the regulations provide for a lottery, which will be carried out live during the broadcast of the debate, to determine the candidate who will put a question, an answer or a supplementary question to his candidates in each thematic axis.
Likewise, he explained that the moderator or moderator, as part of his duties, could interrupt the answers of the candidates for the presidency of the Andean country for a period of five to five years in the event that they move away from the issues raised by 10 seconds. , which are not deducted from the intervention time of the participants.
The presidential candidates will meet on August 13 in a debate in which they will answer questions prepared by experts appointed by the CNE on issues such as the economy and security.
The discussion comes just a week before elections in which more than 13 million Ecuadorians are called to elect the president and vice-president, the 137 members of the National Assembly, and they must also respond to a referendum on oil production in the country Yasuní- area in the Amazon.
The election plan includes a possible run-off for October 15 and the swearing-in of the new president is scheduled for November.
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