Ecuador: Guillermo Lasso proclaims himself president-elect

The former right-wing banker Guillermo Lasso proclaimed himself on Sunday April 11 elected president at the end of the second ballot in Ecuador, pledging to take up the

of changing the country, faced with a severe economic crisis , worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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"On May 24th, we will assume with responsibility the challenge of changing the destiny of our homeland and to achieve for all the Ecuador of opportunities and prosperity to which we aspire"

, declared the conservative, whose victory was recognized by his rival, the socialist Andrés Arauz.