This Sunday, October 15, Ecuadorian migrants will participate in the early elections for the election of the president and vice-president of the Republicbut also to repeat the vote of national and foreign deputies, for which they will receive three ballots.

However, political groups and electoral alliances must wait until the day’s results are totalized, to add them to those obtained by their assembly candidates. AndDuring the early elections of the first round on August 20.

On Sunday, 409,250 Ecuadorians who reside in 101 zones of three constituencies abroad are summoned to the polls in in person participate in the second presidential round and renew the election of national and foreign deputies.

This happens after the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared null the telematic vote of the members of the national and foreign assembly which took place on August 20 due to failures of the technological system.

It was decided that Ecuadorian migrants – for whom this right is optional – will have to vote in person and will have to go to the consulates or places contracted for this purpose.

However, in the last hours, the electoral authority decided not to organize the vote in Israel, due to the war that country is experiencing with the Islamic group Hamas. There were 293 Ecuadorian voters registered there.

There will be no elections either Nicaraguawith more than 80 voters, because diplomatic relations with Ecuador have not been restored.

Depending on each country’s time zone, after 5:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m., polling stations will close and counting will begin on times 635 vote reception advice (JRV) which will be installed in the electoral constituencies.

The CNE plans to publish the first results after 6:00 p.m. of the second round of the binomial presidential election in which it is participating: Daniel Noboa Azín, of the DNA alliance, list 4-35 and Luisa Gonzalez Alcivarof the Citizen Revolution (RC) movement, list 5.

Meanwhile, the assembly members’ dignity results will appear simultaneously and will then be added to the official results on August 20.

This is how the president of the National Electoral Council, Diana Atamaint, explained it: “On the night of October 15, the results of the second round and what Ecuadorians abroad report will be published. But the votes available to the candidates for the (National) Assembly will be added later so as not to mix up and so that there is no confusion. The publication will cover all the activities of the second round and, in the case of members of the National Assembly, once the amount won by each candidate has been totalized, it will be added to what they have won on the national territory,” he said. declared Atamaint.

From the first round of the legislative elections, the seats of 116 members of the assembly were defined, which constitutes 84.6% of the legislative plenary session and represents 24 provinces of the country.

21 spaces remain to be defined, including fifteen nationals and six foreigners, due to the cancellation of telematic voting for Ecuadorians residing in the constituencies of Europe, Asia and Oceania; Latin America, Caribbean, Africa; and Canada and the United States.

Voters will receive three ballots: one to elect the president and vice-president of the Republic; one to elect members of the National Assembly; and another for members of the assembly coming from abroad.

This is in accordance with Article 150 of the Code of Democracy, which states that the National Assembly will be composed of 15 members elected from a national constituency; two members of the assembly for each province or metropolitan district and one more for each 200,000 inhabitants or fraction exceeding 150,000.

And, in the case of foreign constituencies, six members of the assembly will be elected, two distributed throughout Europe, Oceania and Asia; two for Canada and the United States; and two for Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa.

The Electoral Council allocated $57,981 to contract the printing of electoral documents, packaging, among other services, for which the Military Geographic Institute (IGM) was responsible.

2,506 election observers are registered, including 2,214 nationals and 310 internationals.

Among them is the collective Defend your votewhose representative, Néstor Marroquín, indicated that they would deploy volunteers to carry out electoral control.

According to Marroquín, they have Ecuadorian volunteers who live abroad and have offered to send information and photographs of the control summary report and the so-called “registration sheet”, which is a document similar to the register election which is given to each JRV so that it is filled out with all the voters’ fingerprints and signatures and placed in a visible place at the polling place.

According to him, the votes abroad will be decisive in determining which political group will co-opt the six seats abroad and one of the members of the National Assembly.

“These are three seats which, in the first round, were won by the Construye movement on list 25 and which risks losing them; and, regarding the members of the National Assembly, there is a minimal difference between positions 14 and 15, and the vote from abroad can influence who can arrive or not, compared to the candidates whose seats are almost proclaimed,” he said, referring to the fact that they still are. We need to know the results of the overseas vote. (YO)