Ecuadorian presidential candidate by Citizen Revolution Movement, Luisa González, addresses supporters and plans to ask for a recount of the polls. teleSUR
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00:00And now we go live with a press conference of the Citizens' Revolution Party. Let's listen.
00:18I'm once again here in front of my people, facing my people, as always,
00:23as it has to be done by the people of good faith.
00:30I always want to thank my colleagues, everyone that is here, press and elected authorities,
00:38colleagues of Citizens' Revolution, my running mate, Diego Borjas.
00:42Thank you all for being here with us.
00:48I want to thank the members of the Unity as well.
00:52And having said this, I want to be very clear.
00:55Citizens' Revolution, as always, recognized a defeat in the last elections when it has been proven in the statistics and polls.
01:11Today, we do not recognize the results.
01:15The crowd is cheering and screaming, calling for a recount of the votes.
01:32I'm going to be very clear.
01:40In the name of men, women, children, teenagers that I represent, to which we all represent,
01:50in the name of the people that we represent,
01:53we do not recognize the results presented by the National Electoral Authority.
01:59The crowd is now cheering, saying that she's not alone.
02:19And I want always to recognize the unity, and I want to recognize the movements inside our Citizens' Revolution,
02:28the different movements, the right political parties, and businessmen, different actors,
02:35everyone that supported this project of Homeland.
02:39And I refuse to believe that there is a people that prefers lie before the truth and violence before peace and unity.
02:50I refuse to believe something like this.
02:53That is why we, the whole people that has united against violence, against lies,
03:01we're going to ask for a recount of the polls.
03:06We have witnessed how the abuse of power, first, no one ever asked for the license.
03:31Second, use the authorities of the National Electoral Council to do whatever he wanted to,
03:39to trample the rights of Ecuadorian people and to trample democracy.
03:44And then, a state of exception.
03:47Why?
03:47Why?
03:48For what?
03:49To, very likely, guarantee the greatest electoral fraud that has occurred here.
04:00Dear brothers, we have to be very clear.
04:18There are nearly 11 polls, investigations.
04:25Oh, even that of the government, they didn't give them the victory.
04:30Not a single one gave the victory, and even less the difference, like the one that the National Electoral Council is showing.
04:43So that's why I denounce before my people, the media, and before the world,
04:48that Ecuador is experiencing a dictatorship,
04:50and they are implementing, they are carrying out the worst electoral fraud of the Republic of Ecuador.
04:56The crowd continues cheering and telling Luisa that she's not alone.
05:10How can this be believable, the numbers that they are showing?
05:28How can we believe that 11 polls, and there was not a single one that gave the victory to him?
05:40There was not a single poll that gave him victory.
05:58And here we are going to defend our rise to democracy,
06:01and call for a new recount, and for the polls to be open.
06:05Ecuador cannot continue to be ruled in the hands of someone that is unable to direct the country to peace,
06:17to nonviolence, and to development.
06:21The only thing that knows how to do is to hurt his family and persecute the Ecuadorian people.
06:27Today, more than ever, dear brothers and sisters, we have to be united.
06:33Today, more than ever, we have to be vigilant of what he who refers to him as President of the Republic does.
06:45Because the support of the people, he doesn't have it.
06:48Because he's doing fraud, the worst fraud, and I denounce this publicly.
06:53Thank you very much.
06:55We are going to continue in the struggle.
06:57We are going to continue in the struggle.
07:04And Luisa Gonzalez, the presidential candidate of the Citizens Revolution Party,
07:09doesn't recognize the results.
07:12She said this election has been marred by regularities,
07:16starring from the state of exception that was declared by the incumbent President Daniel Novoa.
07:20In this sense, the president of the elections of the executive secretary of the National Revolution Party,
07:28on his ex-account, made statements about the approval of electoral sheets without signatures
07:34and in favor of presidential candidate Daniel Novoa.
07:38In this sense, Luisa Gonzalez has asked for a record of votes
07:42because these elections were marked by an obvious fraud,
07:47and Gonzalez denounced it publicly.
07:49It's well known that since the first term of Daniel Novoa,
07:55he did nothing about the situations in the country.
07:59A wave of violence emerged from the bottom to the top,
08:03and now with this supposed re-election that is being denounced as a fraud,
08:10the presidential candidate for the Citizens Revolution Party denounced a fraud,
08:17and that she doesn't recognize the results,
08:20and that it's necessary a record of votes for to clarify all the situation
08:28that has been happening in this electoral process.
08:33Let's remember that a state of exception was announced
08:39and was declared by the government of Novoa yesterday, Saturday,
08:45and not only this, there were also the violent threats against the presidential candidate
08:57of the citizens' revolution party, Luisa Gonzalez, her family, her supporters.
09:02This has been fraud, this has been announced fraud,
09:06and the not recognition of their results.
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