Ecuador leftist ahead in election -exit polls

[arcos]

Ecuador leftist ahead in election -exit polls

QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) - Ecuador's leftist Rafael Correa, an ally of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, was headed for victory after Sunday's run-off to elect the country's eighth president in a decade, three exit polls showed.

Correa, a U.S.-trained economist who worried Wall Street with talk of debt renegotiation, marketed himself as an outsider to woo Ecuadoreans frustrated with poverty and years of instability in the world's top banana exporter.

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The three exit polls announced on local television showed Correa with around 57 percent of the vote while Noboa had around 43 percent.

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Noboa, 56, whose family made a fortune from bananas, lured voters with a populist campaign mixing handouts of cash, wheelchairs and computers with religion and offers of jobs and 300,000 houses a year for the poor.

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http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-26T222601Z_01_N26346500_RTRUKOC_0_UK-ECUADOR-ELECTION.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsLanding-C4-World-3

This landslide is great news... Noboa is a quasi-fascist, while Correa is a moderate left winger who's planning to clean up the rampant corruption in Ecuador.

[Joanne98]

1. YES! this is great news K&R!

[Joanne98]

2. Is there a link for real time results?

[arcos]

3. Not that I know of, but I will look around...

However, they said the first official results would come at midnight with 30% of the votes counted. It will take them until Tuesday to count them all.

[jordi_fanclub]

6. Maybe here...

Realtime but in spanish only:
http://www.tse.gov.ec/Resultados2006_2v/

[Joanne98]

4. Correa ahead in Ecuador vote

Correa ahead in Ecuador vote
27.11.2006. 10:11:49
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=133023®ion=4


Leftist economist Rafael Correa is leading Ecuador's presidential election with a 14-point lead over conservative banana tycoon Alvaro Noboa, exit polls showed.

Mr Correa, 43 and a friend of Venezuela's anti-US president Hugo Chavez, had an advantage of 13.6 percentage points in one poll, 14 in another and almost 16 in a third.

Cedatos/Gallup showed him winning the presidency with 56.8 percent of the vote, Teleamazonas television had him taking 57 percent and the Market pollsters gave Mr Correa 57.99 percent.

Ecuador country profile

Mr Noboa, 56 had earlier insisted he was headed to victory and urged voters to ignore exit polls.

Mr Correa has stirred unease on financial markets with his calls to renegotiate the country's debt and revise foreign oil companies' contracts in Ecuador.

His friendship with Venezuela's firebrand leader, and his determination not to renew a lease for a US military base in Ecuador, also have caused concern in
Washington.
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=133023®ion=4

SOURCE: AFP

[EFerrari]

5. Good news!

[GETPLANING]

7. Sell the good news, buy the bad news

As the Central American countries go left, one by one, and the right wing media whines about how all those left wing governments are "wrecking the economy" in Central America, the Latin America 40 stock index continues to outperform. Amazing, isn't it?

[jordi_fanclub]

8. Latest results

The Supreme Court webpage with the updated results, click here:
http://www.tse.gov.ec/Resultados2006_2v/Presidente.aspx?CodDign=1

Detailled results: http://www.tse.gov.ec/Resultados2006_2v
Need to push the button "President" in the upper left page
RAFAEL CORREA - LENIN MORENO 65,88%
ALVARO NOBOA - VICENTE TAIANO 34,12%

The VP name revolves the stomach of any right-winger. ROTFLMAO

[David__77]

11. Vice President Lenin! Lol! Eat it, right wingers.

That's great.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Glad you pointed this out. Have been noting their wailing about what the hell can happen

to Latin America whenever ANY leftist runs for office. Despicable, and laughable. I hope South and Central Americas finally combine for one mighty era in unity and progress among themselves, and move far, far beyond the bloody years when nut jobs in the States ruled them all through corrupt, violent, vicious puppets like Pinochet, the Argentinian Generals, Stroessner, Hugo Banzer, Efrain Rios Montt, Trujillo, Batista, Duvalier, Anastasio Somoza, etc.

Right-wing American pResidents have interfered and harmed them far too much. They need to run their own countries, elect their own leaders and live without the fear of American covert ops, American-backed coups, American invasions, and America-serving puppets in their Presidential palaces.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Latin America keeps on shifting towards the left

BY NEWS ANALYST JESÚS TORQUEMADA
Latin America keeps on shifting towards the left
11/27/2006

Following Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil and Nicaragua, Ecuador adds up now to the list of Latin American countries that trust leaders who don't agree to everything Washington suggests any more.
Correa's victory in Ecuador, still to be confirmed, is one more step in the shift towards the left observed in Latin America.

Within the last few months, Morales won elections in Bolivia, Bachelet in Chile, Lula in Brazil and Ortega in Nicaragua. And Chavez will most probably be re-elected in Sunday's Venezuelan elections.
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Bush could find consolation in the fact that some of the candidates he supported, Calderon in Mexico, Uribe in Colombia and Garcia in Peru, won their elections, but in all cases the anti-US left became stronger, especially in Mexico and Peru.

One could talk about a tendency Ecuadorian Correa ads up to now. We'll see how far he takes his promises to improve the situation of the poorest, but for sure he will align Ecuador's Foreign politics with Bolivia and Venezuela and that will put one more brake on the free commerce treaty the United States want to impose in the whole America.
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http://www.eitb24.com/portal/eitb24/noticia/en/international-news/by-news-analyst-jesus-torquemada-latin-america-keeps-on-shifting-?itemId=B24_22691&cl=%2Feitb24%2Finternacional&idioma=en