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Noboa wins first round of Ecuadorean presidential elections
Miami Herald ^
| October 15, 2006
| EMILY SCHMALL AND STEVEN DUDLEY
Posted on 10/15/2006 10:17:43 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuadorean presidential elections will go to a second round on Nov. 26, after one of the country's wealthiest men, Alvaro Noboa, narrowly defeated the U.S. trained economist Rafael Correa in the first round on Sunday.
With a quarter of the votes counted, results from the National Electoral Tribunal showed Noboa obtained 26 percent, while Correa got 24 percent. Exit polls by independent pollsters coincided with these results. Neither candidate reached the 40 percent minimum needed to avoid a runoff.
Ecuador was voting on Sunday for their eighth president in 10 years in what many hoped would be an end to a tumultuous decade of politics, but many fear could lead to more chaos.
(Excerpt) Read more at miami.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: correa; ecuador; noboa; southamerica
Correa was recently quoted a saying "Calling Bush the devil is offending the devil. The devil is evil, but intelligent. I believe Bush is a tremendously dimwitted president who has done great damage to his country and to the world," Correa said.
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Correction: as saying (not a saying)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
So, what's the problem? That's the beauty of free speech.
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
So which one is really right of left?
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10/15/2006 10:45:07 PM PDT
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sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: sageb1
Noboa, from an article I read, has the support of social Christians and he in effect labeled Correa a Commie.
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Social Democracy type then? Socialist rather than Communist? ~sigh
I'm a conservative Catholic. Thinking this is another "lesser of two evils" situation.
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10/15/2006 10:59:46 PM PDT
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sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: sageb1
I am not too familiar with MonstersAndCritics.com but they have a lead from Deutsche Presse-Agentur calling Noboa "a conservative." Could be a relative term but he certainly isn't another Correa from what I have read. http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southamerica/article_1211413.php/Conservative_tycoon_Noboa_leading_in_Ecuador_exit_polls
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
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10/15/2006 11:13:48 PM PDT
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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