Ecuador: Moreno Ratifies Commitment to Prevent a Return to the Past
Quito – Lenin Moreno, one of two candidates for the presidency of Ecuador who will go to second round in April, ratified the commitment to prevent the return of this South American country to the past at the polls.
‘They know that even in a second round we will beat them again,’ said the representative of the government Movement PAIS Alliance from Guayaquil, where he will hold this day interviews with the TV channel RTS and Radio America radio station.
The port city was one of the points chosen by Moreno as part of a national tour, in gratitude for the votes obtained in the first round of general elections, held on Sunday.
Despite winning with 39.5 percent of the votes and having a margin higher than 10 percent compared to the second most voted, the ex-banker Guillermo Lasso (28.1), Moreno did not reach the 40 percent points required to be declared the definitive winner in the elections.
However, Moreno said he will defend the voters’ pronouncement and rejected the ‘political chaos’ driven by opposition, which in his view, is the response of those who feel defeated.
Moreno stressed that he is not willing to engage in any debate with his opponent, who has proposed to hold them weekly until the April 2 elections, but to dialogue.
Prior to his visit to Guayaquil, the leftist candidate was in Manta, where he held a meeting with the ex-candidate to presidency Ivan Espinel (Force Social Commitment movement), to exchange views on the electoral process and the common points in their programs.
By its part, Espinel reiterated that everything is perfectible and deserves correction and recalled that he was the only one who had the decency, in the presidential dialogue held in this capital, to recognize the social investment and the success of the government.
He also ratified one of the slogans of his campaign: ‘you have to take the good and change the bad,’ and Lenin considered Moreno as someone committed to ‘improve and deepen the good and change the bad.’
