[20170420]IF10581_厄瓜多尔2017年选举.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated April 20, 2017Ecuadors 2017 ElectionsPresidential Elections and April Runoff On April 2, 2017, governing party candidate Lenn Voltaire Moreno narrowly won a runoff election in Ecuador with a margin of slightly more than 2% of the vote, according to Ecuadors National Electoral Council (CNE). Reporting after 100% of the vote was counted, CNE announced that Moreno received 51.15% and opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso received 48.85% of the votes cast. Lasso, who had come in second in the first-round vote on February 19 (see Figure 1), gained the backing of an array of opposition parties. A former banker, Lasso posed his campaign as a movement for change following a decade of rule under the Alianza Patria Altiva y Soberana (PAIS, or AP) party. Moreno and his vice presidential candidate Jorge Glas are slated to take office on May 24, 2017. Figure 1. Presidential Election and Runoff Results Source: Data from CNE. Graphic created by CRS. The 2017 elections were the first in a decade in which Rafael Correa did not run for president, but his two former vice presidents both ran. Presidential candidate Moreno served as vice president under Correa fro