Ecuadoreans head to the polls Sunday -- just over 13 million eligible voters will have a record 16 presidential candidates to pick from. Polls put lefist Andrés Arauz and business-friendly Guillermo Lasso at the head of the pack, in an ideologically polarized battle to head the country. Both leading candidates are making increasingly grand promises to woo an electorate battered by high unemployment and growing poverty, reports the Financial Times. The new president will have to manage a country afflicted by economic malaise and the coronavirus pandemic. (
Ecuador to vote on Sunday (Feb. 5, 2021)
Ecuador to vote on Sunday (Feb. 5, 2021)
Ecuador to vote on Sunday (Feb. 5, 2021)
Ecuadoreans head to the polls Sunday -- just over 13 million eligible voters will have a record 16 presidential candidates to pick from. Polls put lefist Andrés Arauz and business-friendly Guillermo Lasso at the head of the pack, in an ideologically polarized battle to head the country. Both leading candidates are making increasingly grand promises to woo an electorate battered by high unemployment and growing poverty, reports the Financial Times. The new president will have to manage a country afflicted by economic malaise and the coronavirus pandemic. (