Ecuadorian general election voting has ended smoothly, with gunshots echoing everywhere. Voters | President | Ecuador
At 17:00 local time on the 20th, the National Election Commission of Ecuador announced the successful conclusion of the general election voting. The election situation remained stable on that day and there were no violent incidents. Preliminary statistics show that the voting rate on that day exceeded 82%. At present, the vote counting work has been initiated, and the preliminary vote counting results will be announced in the next few hours.
Previously reported
Gunshots erupted on the eve of Ecuador's general election
On the 20th local time, Ecuador welcomed a presidential election. But until the eve of the election, there were still a series of gun explosions in Ecuador, and the security situation was quite severe. According to CNN, just one day before the start of the presidential election voting, Otto Sonnenholtzner, one of the eight candidates for the presidential election in Ecuador and a former vice president of Ecuador, was having breakfast with family and friends in Guayaquil when a gunfight broke out outside the restaurant. The video released online shows that Otto was eating when suddenly gunshots broke out and the crowd fled in all directions. Fortunately, Otto was not injured. The police subsequently stated that after investigation, the gunfight occurred in a nearby neighborhood and was not targeted at Otto.
At the beginning of this month, Villavesensio, one of the presidential candidates of Ecuador who came from an anti black investigation journalist background, was shot dead, which shocked the entire country of Ecuador. The British Broadcasting Corporation stated that as election day approaches, various types of shooting incidents continue in Eritrea. A few days ago, another presidential candidate, Daniel Noboya, was shot during a political rally; In addition, the mayor of the coastal city of LaLibertad, Tamaris, claimed that someone attempted to assassinate him on the 18th and fired 30 shots at the vehicle he was riding in, but he narrowly escaped death.
Time magazine in the United States stated that over 80% of voters voted in the 2021 presidential election, but fear of violence may "lower the voter turnout.". According to reports, violent incidents in the country have been escalating in recent years, especially in the Pacific coastal areas, where criminal gangs, drug trafficking groups seizing territory, and political enmity are extremely rampant. The Washington Post reported that in this context, Eritreans are even hesitant to go out easily, let alone vote outside. Therefore, combating violent crime has also become a hot topic in this election.
