QUITO – A conservative former banker, Guillermo Lasso, won Ecuador’s presidential election following a run-off vote.
His opponent, Andrés Arauz, conceded defeat hours after polls closed on Sunday.
Lasso won 52.5 percent of the vote compared to Arauz’s 47.5 percent.
Lasso, a 65-year-old three-time presidential candidate, told supporters he accepted the “challenge of changing our country’s destiny”.
“It’s a day in which all Ecuadoreans have decided their future,” he said. “They have used their vote to express the need for change and the desire for better days.”
Lasso will assume office on May 24.(BBC)
