Ecuador election: former banker Lasso is surprise winner
by Associated Press and Guardian staff from World news | The Guardian on (#5GF5X)
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A conservative businessman has unexpectedly won Ecuador's presidential election as voters rejected the leftist movement started by the former president Rafael Correa more than a decade ago.
Preliminary results showed that Guillermo Lasso took 52% of the vote in the runoff following a campaign that pitted free-market economics against the social welfare plans of Andres Arauz, an economist.
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