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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 4 April 2017

Ecuador’s Lasso refuses to accept defeat

Development: On 3 April, the presidential candidate for Ecuador’s centre-right opposition Movimiento Creando Oportunidades (Creo) party, Guillermo Lasso, called for a full recount of the second-round presidential election held a day earlier, insisting that he will challenge the official results as soon as they are declared.

Significance: Lenín Moreno, the presidential candidate of the ruling left-wing Alianza País (AP) party, will be declared Ecuador’s next head of state very shortly by the national electoral council (CNE). With 99.61% of the ballot count completed by the CNE, Moreno has 51.16% of the vote to 48.84% for Lasso, who maintains that he is the victim of electoral fraud. During a press conference in the country’s most populous city of Guayaquil, Lasso said that if the CNE agreed to carry out a recount, he would accept defeat even if it was by the margin of “just one vote”. Lasso said he had met members of the electoral observation mission (EOM) sent by the Organization of American States (OAS) to express his disquiet. The EOM released a statement yesterday, however, pointing out that it had detected “no discrepancies between the statements of poll observed and the official data”.

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