Ecuadorian authorities safeguard upcoming Sunday's election day
The electoral authorities of Ecuador deploy a security plan to safeguard this coming Sunday's election day. teleSUR
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00:00 The Los Alamos National Electoral Council completed the deployment of the security plan
00:03 to guarantee the holding of Sunday's presidential runoff.
00:06 Following the beginning of the electoral silence at midnight this Friday, some 100,000 security
00:11 forces were deployed throughout the country.
00:14 There are more than 53,700 police officers and 42,296 military personnel in charge of
00:21 protecting the public during the voting day.
00:24 Also on Sunday, more than 9,000 officials of the Health Ministries Network, the Risk
00:28 Management Secretariat and the Integrated Security Service will be active to respond
00:32 to any emergency.
00:39 In this context, the Electoral Council launched on Friday the home voting process as part
00:43 of the early presidential runoff.
00:45 The Electoral Council established 166 mobile voting stations through 122 established routes.
00:51 It is expected that some 470,000 people with disabilities will vote on Sunday's election
00:58 day.