*Most polls showed Luisa Gonzalez as the winner
*Candidate Gonzalez did not recognize Sunday electoral results
*2025 presidential election held amidst various irregularities
*Candidate Gonzalez demands a full recount of the votes with due transparency
*Candidate Gonzalez did not recognize Sunday electoral results
*2025 presidential election held amidst various irregularities
*Candidate Gonzalez demands a full recount of the votes with due transparency
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00:00We are now going live to Ecuador with a special envoy, Jorge Gestoso, to learn everything that is happening a day after the results were known in Ecuador's presidential runoff.
00:09Hello, Gestoso. Welcome to From the South. What can you tell us of this Monday?
00:15Well, as you were mentioning, Luisa Gonzalez does not recognize the results of the runoff as it does the same situation.
00:26His political party, the RevoluciĂłn Ciudadana, and she called, and these are her words, that the country has witnessed the worst and most grotesque electoral fraud in its history and added, reject, I reject the official count and I demand a full recount.
00:50Reactions that we have seen in terms of the political arena, the CELAC in English is a community of Latin American and Caribbean states supported the denunciation of Luisa Gonzalez.
01:06Another organization, we're talking about the ALBA organization, in English, it's the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our Americans, also denounced the fraud that she denounced and also support her situation.
01:22Former president of Olivia, Evo Morales, the former president of Olivia, Evo Morales, supported Luisa Gonzalez, denounced precisely the fraud.
01:31He believes that he believes that the situation is practically a carbon copy of what he has lived, a coup d'etat in the in the mostly in after the election that also he has been even persecuted and even has been tried to kill.
01:53Well, he was very, very supportive of Luisa Gonzalez. And the current president of Mexico, we're talking about Claudia Sheinbaum, she said that we have to wait.
02:05We need to have more information. Here, inside the political party, the RevoluciĂłn Ciudadana, there are certain members that are more inclined to accept the results and move forward.
02:22And some of them, for example, for example, the vice president, Diego Borja, is absolutely supportive of Luisa Gonzalez.
02:31And also, he announced that it has been a fraud that it was a situation plagued with irregularities and also is asking the National Electoral Council to start a full investigation.
02:47We get back to you now.
02:54Thank you, Jorge Gestoso. For this latest information, we're going to stay in tune in upcoming news brief to continue learning everything that is happening in Ecuador.