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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 13 April 2017
ECUADOR: Correa calls on Lasso not to lose his dignity
Ecuador’s national electoral council (CNE) officially declared Lenín Moreno of the ruling left-wing Alianza País (AP) the winner of the presidential run-off race on 2 April. Moreno pipped his conservative rival Guillermo Lasso of the centre-right Movimiento Creo by 51.15% to 48.85% of the valid vote. Lasso continues to refuse to accept his narrow defeat, alleging fraud affecting some 1.2m votes. The final CNE tally gave Moreno just over 5m votes and Lasso just over 4.8m, with a difference of just 226,596 votes between them.
