Today -- August 20, 2023 -- is an election day in Ecuador.
Following a violent campaign season that was triggered
by a presidente seeking to avoid being impeached,
the electorate of Ecuador will choose a new
National Assembly months after the old one was dissolved
and is choosing a new president from among eight candidates.
If Luisa Gonzáles, the polling front-runner whose party
is aligned with ex-president Rafael Correa, obtains
40 percent of the votes for president, she could become
president-elect. If no candidate reaches 40 percent,
there will be a two-candidate runoff election for president
in two months.
The candidates elected in this snap election will serve until
early 2025 when a regularly-scheduled election for
president and assembly seats will be held.
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