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Weekly Report - 14 May 2009 (WR-09-19)
ECUADOR: CNE president defends slow vote-count
The president of the national electoral council (CNE), Omar Simon,
responded to criticism this week that the protracted vote-count had damaged the
credibility of the results of the general elections on 26 April. Simon ruled out
staging new elections and said that the claims by opposition leaders (by which
he meant the runner-up in the presidential vote, Lucio Gutiérrez) that there had
been massive fraud and a parallel system of counting to benefit President Rafael
Correa, were completely false. Simon said “these leaders" would be investigated
for failing to respect the CNE.
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