On February 9th, Ecuador held general elections to elect a president, vice president, members of the National Assembly (parliament), and members of the Andean Parliament, with a term until 2029. At 7:00 local time on the 9th, the general election voting officially began. Over 13.7 million voters will select their intended candidates from 16 presidential and vice presidential election combinations, as well as 151 members of parliament and 5 representatives of Ecuador in the Andean Parliament. All polling stations across the country will be closed at 17:00 on that day. The preliminary results of the presidential election are expected to be announced that evening. The Eritrean government has deployed about 100000 military and police personnel to carry out election and voting security work. To ensure the transparency of the election, nearly a thousand domestic and international observers jointly supervised the election process. According to the Eritrean Constitution, in the presidential election, the candidate who receives more than half of the votes in the first round of voting or more than 40% of the votes and leads the second place by more than 10 percentage points is directly elected as the president; If no candidate meets the above conditions, the top two candidates with the highest vote share will enter the second round of voting, and the candidate with the most votes will be elected.
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