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April 3, 2017

Ecuador: Ruling Party's Moreno Edges Out Right-Wing Rival in Presidential Runoff
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In Ecuador, ruling party candidate Lenín Moreno appears to have narrowly
beaten the right-wing former banker Guillermo Lasso in Sunday's
presidential runoff vote. With 94 percent of the votes counted, Moreno,
who served as vice president to outgoing President Rafael Correa, is
leading with 51 percent of the vote. Lasso had said he would throw Wiki
Leaks founder Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, if
elected.


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