Ecuadorian general election, 2006
The elections in Ecuador in 2006 were held on 15 October 2006. Were elected the President and Vice-President ( right ), the 100 members of the National Congress, the five representatives of Ecuador in the Andean Parliament and members of the provincial and city councils. The runoff election for the office of President took place on 26 November at the same time as a referendum on health and education programs and a vote in the canton of Santo Domingo de los Colorados on its collection to the province.
A total of 9,165,125 Ecuadorians were either subject, of which 143 352 as registered abroad, the latter only for the presidential election. Outside of Ecuador polling stations were first established in 36 consulates in 21 countries. In Germany, 527 people were eligible to vote at consulates in Hamburg and Berlin. Ecuador has legal compulsory for all adult citizens between 18 and 65 years who are not illiterate.
Expiration
The elections were generally calm and without special incidents. The senior election observer of the OAS, the former Argentine Foreign Minister Rafael Bielsa said on October 20 in relation to the first ballot, that he expected an orderly election process. He would not take any ads before because of election fraud. The only minor incidents were playing in the small canton Muisne in Esmeraldas on where ballots were burned and citizens demonstrated against the Access Location stranger to the elections. Here are the voting was repeated on October 29. In Murcia, Spain, where about 30,000 Ecuadorian emigrants chose, it came before the place of election, a training center, a riot, because choice willing feared, given their long snakes elective unable to meet. There were a few injuries.
Since on election night turned out the data center of the obligated for the evaluation of the quick count Brazilian consortium e- Vote, only 70 % of the votes of the presidential election fast track and about 45 % were counted regularly two days after the elections. The end result of the first round of the presidential election was only one and a half weeks after the election before, shortly after the result of the election to the Andean Parliament. On November 10, 2006, the election results for the National Congress stood firm. In the second ballot e -vote was no longer used.
The election is organized by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Ecuador, announced on October 16 the contract with E -Vote for failure to comply and began even with the counting of votes. The prosecutor of the province of Pichincha decreed that the documents and the heads of delegation of EVOTE the country were not allowed to leave. This arrangement was canceled in late November 2006, the Heads of Delegation traveled to Washington from November 30. The computers used were confiscated and examined the network of experts from the National Polytechnic University. On 27 December 2006, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal arose prior to the scheduled arbitration board of the Chamber of Commerce Quito action for breach of contract against e -vote and called for a compensation of 5.2 million U.S. dollars, which is almost equal to the total original contract value. In September 2007, the conciliation procedure in favor of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal was decided. The guarantee payments from E- vote ( 2.6 million U.S. dollars) and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal retained penalties ( 572,000 U.S. dollars) were awarded to the electoral court for breach of contract.
The members of the Supreme Electoral Court were in turn placed in October and November in public with corruption or irregularities at the conclusion of the contract in connection because they should have prescribed for contracting expertise and powers not obtained; these allegations were without legal consequences.
The runoff election for the presidency was without significant obstacles. On the day of the ballot of the presidential election went to the head of the election observation mission, Bielsa, from Ecuador to Washington from. The following week, the Argentine press reported that this happened because of death threats against him. The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry assured the government had no knowledge of it and I have at any time guarantee the safety Bielsa. Bielsa had been accused by the candidate Rafael Correa of bias against him and brought in the press with the Argentinean delegation leader of e -Vote, Santiago Murray, in conjunction, which also was for many years the OAS election observers for previously by the Ecuadorian press reports. But Bielsa said in a sworn statement to have Murray not known personally.
Presidential elections
For the first round of voting occurred in 13 candidates who are listed below with their voting shares. Since none of the candidates could reach more than 40 % of the vote and ten percentage points ahead of runners-up, was on November 26, a runoff election between the two candidates with the most votes, Álvaro Noboa and Rafael Correa held. The runoff election was won by the runner-up in the first ballot leftist Correa with 56.67 percent of the vote ( Noboa: 43.33% ), as the Supreme Electoral Tribunal announced on 4 December 2006. Because of the marked projection Correa was announced by the media already on election night as the winner and approved on 27 November as election winner of the Organization of American States.
After the first ballot ensured the good election results for Noboa and Gilmar Gutiérrez, brother of deposed in April 2005 President Lucio Gutiérrez, for surprise, as in the pre-election polls always Correa and León Roldós the two front seats were occupied, while Gutiérrez on was classified in fifth place. Analysts justified this deviation with the high voting shares, the Noboa and Gutiérrez received in rural and informal populated areas that had been insufficiently taken into account in the polls. Gutiérrez received in all five provinces in the Amazon basin the most votes, in some even more than 50 %. Noboa decided the coastal region, while Correa received the highest number of votes in most Andean provinces. Both Roldós and Correa expressed very critical on the poll practices.
In the second round, there was a clear direction of the race, as Noboa announced a populist politics conservative- neoliberal character and the termination of diplomatic relations with Cuba and Venezuela, and in view of its rivals even the "communism" ansagte the fight, while the leftist Correa for a rapprochement with Venezuela, interventionist government policies and a new Constituent Assembly to overcome what he called " Partidokratie " influence of the traditional parties entered administration and judiciary in a new constitution. Correa won with a surprisingly large lead, as he sometimes significantly more votes received in all the provinces of the Andean region and the Amazon lowlands as well as in the coastal provinces of El Oro and Los Ríos Noboa, the only - but the most populous counting - coastal provinces of Guayas, Manabí and Esmeraldas could decide for themselves. Ecuadorian commentators made for victory Correas also a great mobilization of voters to an election victory Noboas responsible, while at higher turnout lead in comparison to the first round of voting reduced number of invalid votes (10.8% ) ( approximately 76 %) in the second round. The turnout in the first round was 72.2 %, with 16.5% of the ballots cast were blank or invalid. The votes for the political climber Correa be particularly considered in this context as votes against established parties and the patronage politics Noboas who tried this to hide in the election campaign by he gave wheelchairs, computers and cash, and with views of microcredit and houses for poor layers promoted.
The official results are as follows:
In the elections for the National Congress 100 seats were assigned to. These were divided in advance of the 22 provinces of the country. Each province is at least two deputies. This number increases according to the number of inhabitants. In the most populous province of Guayas 18 deputies were elected.
The registered parties and political movements could nominate candidates in each province after the deposit of sufficient supporting signatures. The maximum number of each nominated candidates corresponded to the number to be selected MPs. On election day, each voter had as many votes as in his province MPs were to vote. This could also be assigned completely to a list of candidates both to individual candidates of different lists like.
In the evaluation, which was also carried out at the provincial level, were first the voices of those ballots, their votes were cast for candidate multiple lists, list converted into votes equivalents. Subsequently, the list votes equivalents were added to the list votes. According to the so- determined total number Timm per list the seats were distributed at the provincial level to the lists. Here, the method of d' Hondt was used. The seats for each list were given to the candidates with the highest individual voting numbers or with the same number of votes to those with higher list seats. The voting rights at the national level were for the composition of Parliament is not important.
The following parties registered lists of candidates in at least eleven of the 22 provinces, with each province different electoral alliances (joint lists of candidates ) between parties and political movements were possible: Partido Social Cristiano (PSC ), Movimiento Popular Democrático (MPD ), Partido Renovador Institucional Acción Nacional ( PRIAN ), Partido Sociedad Patriótica ( PSP), Izquierda Democrática (ID), Red Ética y Democracia (RED, usually in alliance with ID), Pachakutik, Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano ( PRE), Unión Demócrata Cristiana (UDC ), Partido Socialista - Frente Amplio (PS -FA ), Movimiento de Reinvindicación Demócrata (MRD ) and de Fuerzas Populares Concentración (CFP ).
The announcement of the election results and the distribution of seats was delayed until November 10, as in the provinces of Guayas and Manabí recounts were made. After the counts, the following distribution of the 100 seats in the National Congress was:
Thus, the two are only at the election of 2002, founded by Álvaro Noboa parties ( PRIAN ), and Lucio Gutiérrez ( PSP), the deposed president in April 2005, both in absolute and in votes and seat increases the clear choice winner.
The PSC and the ID were in the previous Congress nor the two strongest parties have been with the beginning of the last term 25 or 16 seats. Also, the PRE and Pachakutik, the party of the indigenous movement, lost seats. The usually be encountered in the electoral alliance with ID political movement of presidential candidate Leon Roldós, RED will be a new political force in parliament. The political movements ARE and MCNP redraw or by a legislature without representatives again in the parliament. The parties de Fuerzas Populares Concentración and Integración Nacional Alfarista lost their representation in the National Congress.
Election of representatives to the Andean Parliament
In the election of the representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Ecuador in the Andean Community, five representatives were to be chosen. Was voted on uniform national party lists, not individual candidates.
Were given a total of 6.49 million ballots, of which 2.20 million were empty or invalid ( 33.9 %). Of the five seats, two on the PRIAN, one on Partido Sociedad Patriótica ( PSP), Partido Social Cristiano (PSC ) and the Alliance of Correa's Movimiento País and Partido Socialista - ( / PS -FA MPAÍS ) account Frente Amplio. For the PSP, the former Trade Minister Ivonne Juez de Baki feeds and MPAÍS / PS -FA in the Andean Parliament, the former head of the state-owned bank credit guarantee agency Wilma Salgado. The selected candidates PRIAN and the PSC, Wilson Homero Sanchez and Marcelo Dotti were Congressman in the last legislature. Dotti was also chairman of his party in the province of Pichincha. The second selected candidate of PRIAN, Freddy Giler, is a lawyer and politician from the province of Manabí.
Election results in detail (Source: Ecuadorian Supreme Electoral Tribunal ):