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Ecuadoran court denies appeal for presidential vote recount
QUITO, March 14, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – An electoral court in Ecuador ruled Sunday
against the appeal for a recount by indigenous leader Yaku Perez, who
narrowly missed making it into the country’s upcoming second round of
presidential elections.
Left-wing economist Andres Arauz and former right-wing banker Guillermo
Lasso won the February 7 first round, according to the National Electoral
Council (CNE), the body that organized the vote.
Perez, who missed inclusion in the April 11 runoff by just 32,600 votes,
alleged there were irregularities and demanded a recount.
But the electoral court said it “denied the appeal and ratified the content
of the resolution issued by the National Electoral Council.”
Perez called the decision a hit-job on democracy, and said on Twitter he
would keep up the fight for transparency.
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