2023-08-14 22:53:05
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The leader of the leftist Revolución Ciudadana party, Pedro Briones, was assassinated following being hit by a bullet in Ecuador. The news was released through Luisa González’s social networks.
The candidate assured that these bloody events are due to the fact that mafias had taken over the State of Ecuador, now occupied by the right-wing Guillermo Lasso.
‘Ecuador is experiencing its bloodiest period. We owe this to the total abandonment of an inept government and to a state taken over by the mafias,’ said Correista presidential candidate Luisa González, who pointed out that Briones fell ‘into the hands of violence.’
This happens less than a week following the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio, 59, who was shot several times on Wednesday night as he left a rally. He was second in voting intentions with a view to the early elections on Sunday, August 20 in Ecuador.
The following day, the assembly candidate of Ecuador, Estefany Puente, was unharmed in an attack following two armed subjects aboard motorcycles opened fire on the vehicle in which she was traveling through the city of Quevedo, in the province of Los Ríos.
The candidate for the leftist Citizen Revolution party, Pedro Briones, assassinated, is not an isolated incident in Ecuador, where there is an intense wave of violence once morest candidates ahead of the upcoming elections on August 20.
The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, declared last Thursday, August 10, a state of emergency for 60 days throughout the country following the shooting of candidate Fernando Villavicencio and to guarantee early general elections whose date is maintained.
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