The political motion Construye, from Ecuador, has introduced this Saturday that Andrea Gonzalez Nader shall be its new presidential candidate, changing Fernando Villavicencio, who final Wednesday was assassinated by alleged hitmen on the exit of an electoral rally.
Andrea Gonzalez Nader is an environmental engineer and till now held the candidacy for vice chairman within the binomial headed by Villavicencio. She builds she has indicated in an announcement that she is going to announce within the subsequent few hours who she is going to exchange quantity two on the poll.
If the Nationwide Electoral Council (CNE) accepts this variation, Gonzalez Nader will take part this Sunday within the debate that the presidential candidates will maintain one week earlier than the vote for these extraordinary normal elections, known as for subsequent August 20.
“In step with that, the governing our bodies of the motion have ratified this resolution and Andrea Gonzalez shall be registered as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic of Ecuador,” he added. Within the assertion, signed by the nationwide secretary of Construye, Raul Gonzalez, it’s detailed that within the assembly of the governing our bodies of the motion “the names of different residents have been additionally analyzed, however they have been unanimously rejected.” “We urge allied teams and pals that, primarily based on Fernando’s legacy, any distinction is handled respectfully,” the textual content concludes.
If Gonzalez Nader’s presidential candidacy earlier than the CNE is finalized, there shall be two girls who will run for the top of state out of a complete of eight candidacies in competition. The opposite lady in competition is former Assemblywoman Luisa Gonzalez, from the Citizen Revolution (RC), the motion led by former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017).
The winners of those elections will full the 2021-2025 interval, interrupted by the invocation final Could by the present president, Guillermo Lasso, of the constitutional mechanism of “cross dying”, with which he dissolved the Nationwide Meeting (Parliament), of opposition majority, for the time being when it was making ready to vote on his dismissal.
On this manner, Lasso pressured this name for extraordinary elections, which, in flip, implied a discount in his mandate, which he doesn’t intend to finish till 2025, because the present head of state shouldn’t be operating for re-election.
