[NYTr] Ecuador Alianza Pais Leads Vote Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:52:07 -0500 (CDT) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Prensa Latina, Havana http://www.plenglish.com Ecuador Alianza Pais Leads Vote Quito, Oct 1 (Prensa Latina) The governing party Alianza Pais has a wide advantage over the rest of Ecuadorian groups in the preliminary counting of votes on the Constituent Assembly, which will guarantee it an absolute majority when the Assembly is set up on October 31. Unofficial results revealed that after 90.06 percent of Sunday's votes were counted, Alianza Pais was registering 61.7 percent of the people's support. The ruling Alianza Pais is followed by the Sociedad Patriotica with 7.1 percent, Renovador Institucional with 6.7, and Socialcristiano with 4.2. In the meantime, Red Democratica was holding 2 percent, and other factions were recording less than 2 percent. Valid votes totalled 83.7 percent, 9.6 percent were annulled and 6.60 percent of others were blank. hr dig lgo mf PL-4 * ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us Our main website: http://www.blythe.org List Archives: http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ Subscribe: http://blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr =================================================================