Ecuador goes to the polls to elect new president and vice president

Polls opened early this Sunday morning in Ecuador as voters choose between the progressive coalition candidates of the Unión por la Esperanza UNES -- Andrés Arauz and Carlos Rabascall -- and the right-wing CREO party -- Guillermo Lasso and Alfredo Borrero.

Sunday’s vote will see the South American nation’s 13.1 million voters choose a successor to unpopular reactionary President Lenin Moreno, as well as elect lawmakers to fill 137 seats in the National Assembly.

Voters arrived at polling stations wearing face masks as a precaution against COVID-19 at a time when the country is battling a resurgence of infections, which has aggravated Ecuador’s economic troubles.