Archive for the 'Ecuador' Category
Ecuador has elections coming up, in April. The official campaign period begins in 3 weeks. Candidates are collecting money through the internet and through public events like bingos and raffles. Opponents to President Correa, who is running again, are worried that he will have too much of an advantage by way of the state. But [...]
Add to the current political problems in Ecuador – which for the past couple months have been a constitutional crisis over president’s Correa’s plans for a constitutional assembly – those involving campaign finance. Ciudadanía Informada (in spanish) reports that a member of the committee overseeing electoral finance resigned a day after the committee issued a [...]
For spending beyond the limits prescribed by law, the TSE (Tribunal Supremo Electoral) froze the accounts of both aspirants in the runoff election (held this Sunday, November 26) for Ecuador’s presidency. The accounts of both candidates were frozen on Friday after the TSE found that Alvaro Noboa, the rightwing candidate, and Rafael Correa, the leftist, had [...]
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