On Thursday, the National Electoral Council (CNE) officially called on citizens to participate in the general elections, to elect a new president and 137 assembly members, which will take place next August 20, and the likely second round would be, if necessary, the October 15.
The elected candidates will be sworn in between September and November 2023, and will be in office until May 2025, when new general elections will be held, as planned.
Until Friday, five pre-candidates had confirmed their interest in the presidency in the face of the electoral process after the current president, Guillermo Lasso, dissolved Congress.
This week, the leader of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), Leonidas Iza, joined the list of presidential candidates with the full support of his organization.
Previously, the economist Jan Topic, proposed by the right-wing PSC; The lawyer Yaku Pérez, representative of the alliance between the Socialist Party, Popular Unity, Democracy Yes and Som Aigua movements, had already done so.
Likewise, ex-assembly members Fernando Villavicencio and Daniel Noboa were nominated, as well as ex-vice president Otto Sonnenholzner, all of them from the right.
However, the greatest expectations revolve around the nomination of the Citizen Revolution (RC) movement, led by former president Rafael Correa and considered to have the most support at the national level at the moment.
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