A total of 53.707 officials will join the security operation that will be activated for the electoral process that will take place next Sunday in Ecuador.
At a press conference, the nation's Minister of the Interior, Juan Zapata, reported that in total there will be around 100.000 Executive officials who will be deployed to provide peace of mind for the elections.
According to a dispatch from Prensa Latina, three unified command posts will be established to monitor minute by minute how the vote is taking place, where the voters will also pronounce themselves in a plebiscite that proposes to stop oil extraction in the Amazon Yasuní National Park.
Residents in the municipality of Quito must also decide on the mining ban in the Chocó Andino.
Zapata pointed out that the 44 candidates for the presidency of Ecuador requested protection in the midst of the crisis of violence that is plaguing the nation, since between the months of July and August they have assassinated three aspirants for different positions, a mayor and a municipal official. .
In this regard, the general of the Armed Forces of Ecuador, Nilo Estrada, announced that starting this Wednesday at 21:00 p.m. (local time), the military will be deployed in all the electoral centers, to reinforce the security of the presidential and legislative elections of the next Sunday.
It should be remembered that the electoral campaign will culminate on Thursday, August 17, at which time an electoral silence will be entered until Sunday the 20th, when more than 13,4 million Ecuadorians are summoned to participate in this extraordinary presidential and legislative elections.
Some XNUMX officials have already been deployed throughout the country.
The winners will complete the 2021-2025 period, interrupted last May by the current president, the conservative Guillermo Lasso, by invoking the constitutional mechanism of "cross death" with which he dissolved the National Assembly (Parliament), with an opposition majority, when she was about to vote on his removal.
