QUITO, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Socialist candidate Lenin
Moreno had a slim lead over conservative ex-banker Guillermo Lasso in Ecuador’s runoff presidential vote Sunday, according to partial results, setting up a tense wait for the final count.
Moreno, the designated heir to a decade of President Rafael Correa’s
“21st-century socialism,” had 51.07 percent of the vote to 48.93 percent for
Lasso, with 94.2 percent of districts reporting, said the National Electoral
Council.