Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa (2007-2017) denounced this Sunday that his compatriots living in Russia and Belarus are not allowed to vote, adding that the National Electoral Council (CNE) must “respond legally”.
“The CNE has stolen the right to vote from our compatriots in Russia and Belarus.” “They must respond politically and judicially,” the former president said on his social network account Countries demonstrate because they are not allowed to vote.
In the video, a citizen claims that the CNE plenary session on October 13, 2023 canceled the elections in Russia and Belarus because the electoral packages could not arrive at the office.
“This leaves evidence of numerous irregularities. The first is that the CNE did not have the capacity to organize the arrival.” We are 411 people registered in Russia and 34 people in Belarus, a total of 435 people who do not exercise their right to vote. “We demand more seriousness from the CNE in this process,” adds the complainant.
Hours earlier, former parliamentarian Esther Cuesta denounced an alleged electoral fraud attempt in Genoa, Italy, because she was not given the ballot paper to elect the next president.
President of Ecuador’s National Electoral Council, Diana Atamaint, blamed confusion for the incident at the consulate in Genoa.
Ecuador celebrates this Sunday its presidential runoff election between Luisa González (Civic Revolution, left) and Daniel Novoa (National Democratic Action, center-right), but abroad the election for the National Assembly (Parliament) will be repeated due to problems with the electoral system. Telematic voting rights.
At the end of August, Correa’s political party Revolución Ciudadana called for a repeat election abroad after outages and cyberattacks occurred during telematic voting.
The Organization of American States (OAS) election observation mission, which monitored the first-round elections, called on Ecuador’s electoral body to give “serious and in-depth consideration” to telematic voting.
Correa’s party claims that while Ecuadorians’ votes abroad represent 3 percent of the vote, they can determine the second-round elections.