ECUADOR: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES END CAMPAIGNS WITH FORMER COLONEL LUCIO GUTIERREZ LEADING IN LATEST POLLS

Record ID: 347595

  • Title: ECUADOR: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES END CAMPAIGNS WITH FORMER COLONEL LUCIO GUTIERREZ LEADING IN LATEST POLLS
  • Date: 24th November 2002
  • Summary: (W1) QUITO, ECUADOR (NOVEMBER 22, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. MV PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LUCIO GUTIERREZ ENTERING A GATHERING AT END OF HIS CAMPAIGN; SCU FLAG OF INDIGENOUS MOVEMENT THAT SUPPORTS GUTIERREZ (2 SHOTS) 0.11 2. MV MULTITUDE OF GUTIERREZ SUPPORTERS; SCU POSTER REMEMBERING THE DATE WHEN GUTIERREZ OUSTED EX-PRESIDENT JAMIL MAHUAD (5 SHOTS) 0.54
  • Embargoed: 9th December 2002 12:00
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  • Location: QUITO AND GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR
  • Country: Ecuador
  • Reuters ID: LVA1GY9MHNLZRHUUNXZX58WMY7QC
  • Story Text: Ecuadorian presidential candidates have ended their
    campaigns with ex-colonel Lucio Gutierrez leading in the
    latest polls.

    A retired Ecuadorian army colonel who once helped lead a
    coup is set to win Sunday's (November 24, 2002) presidential
    election, according to the latest polls.

    Lucio Gutierrez, who was jailed for six months for
    supporting a a native Indian uprising which toppled President
    Jamil Mahuad in early 2000, has surged in opinion polls ahead
    of the election.

    Gutierrez, 45, who has a poll lead of between 15 and 30
    percent over his rival billionaire businessman Alvaro Noboa,
    initially scared investors with his coup-leader past and his
    spending plans for the poor. But he has since tried hard to
    forge a moderate image and travelled to Wall Street to
    reassure financiers.

    His surprise victory over traditional parties in the
    first round vote on Oct. 20 was an example of the popular
    discontent with traditional politicians that has swept
    anti-establishment leftists into power in Venezuela and in
    Brazil.

    With his own political movement but no strong support in
    Congress, he wants to form a national unity government,
    including representatives of rich and poor.

    Polls will open on Sunday (November 24) throughout the
    country with the exception of the town of Riobamba. Residents
    of the community, which lies on the outskirts of Quito, are
    still recovering from a recent explosion of a munitions
    factory that killed seven people. The 97,000 voters of that
    community will head to the polls on February 1, 2003.


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