On the eve of Ecuador’s general elections on 19 February, a local court has convicted the fugitive former hydrocarbons minister Carlos Pareja Yannuzzelli and another 15 defendants of forming part of a corruption network at the state-run oil company Petroecuador. Corruption has been the predominant issue in the election campaign, with the political opposition desperate to land some blows on the presidential candidate for the ruling Alianza País (AP), Lenín Moreno, particularly as his running mate, Jorge Glas, taking a leave of absence from his position as vice-president in the government led by President Rafael Correa, has been implicated in the Petroecuador scandal.
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