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(CNN Spanish) -
On Saturday night, from the Theater of the Casa de la Cultura in Quito, seven of the 16 candidates for the Presidency of Ecuador qualified by the National Electoral Council participated in the first part of a forum organized by Grupo El Comercio de Quito, which will take place over two days considering the large number of candidates who are participating in the race.
It was the first joint televised meeting of candidates for the Presidency on the same stage, so that they can present their proposals to citizens for the February 7 elections.
This Sunday the second part of this forum will be held, with seven other candidates.
Two candidates for the Presidency refused to participate in this meeting, Andrés Arauz, a candidate for the movement supported by former President Rafael Correa, and Yaku Pérez, a candidate from the indigenous sector.
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The candidates Guillermo Lasso, who is running for the position for the third time, participated in this first part of the presidential forum;
Gustavo Larrea, Ximena Peña, Isidro Romero, Giovanni Andrade, Paúl Carrasco and Carlos Sagnay.
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The applicants spoke on topics such as the management of the pandemic, the fight against corruption, education, health, national security, transparency in the public sector, promotion of employment and the reactivation of production.
For this Sunday, the candidates Juan Fernando Velasco, Lucio Gutiérrez, Gerson Almeida, Xavier Hervas, Pedro Freile, César Montúfar and Guillermo Celi are scheduled to participate.
On February 7, Ecuador will return to the polls to choose between 16 options for its next president of the Republic.
It is the election with the highest number of candidates that have been presented in the democratic history of the country, according to the archives of the National Electoral Council.