The former officials and several social activists believed that the figures given were not reliable and released a statement warning that this assessment should be carried out by international universities and not by the INEC officials themselves, as these judges and be a party.
The country is witnessing countless irregularities in the population and housing census. The number and severity of the complaints are so sensitive that they jeopardize the announced results, the text says.
Former INEC director Byron Villacis said in statements to digital portal Radio La Calle that 100 percent of Ecuadorians should have been counted.
An omission of two to three percent is usually acceptable. If we look at the current INEC data, it seems as if they did not count 15 percent of the population, he denounced.
According to them, they used different methods To citizens and even the census takers filled out the forms with information received via WhatsApp or with data provided by neighbors when a house was closed.
INEC itself acknowledged difficulties in this regard, particularly in places with very high levels of violence.
After several setbacks and delays, INEC published this Thursday the results of the census, twelve years after the last study of these characteristics.
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