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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-39020912

Ecuador has gone to the polls, and it seems that ruling party candidate LENI PRESIDENTE LENI LENI PRESIDENTE is in the lead.

Rumor has it that non-candidate Jaime 'Your Boy' Nebot may win the write-in votes by a landslide.

Currently going to be a run off election between first place Lenin Moreno and second place Guillermo Lasso. To win in Ecuador, due to being 6 parties, you need at least 40% of the vote and be over 10% over more than 2cd place.
Leni was over 10% more than Lasso, and was at about 39% of the total vote. Basically, just a few votes off of winning outright. That being said, Lasso will probably get much more support from people that voted for the other 4 losing parties, so the run off between the two will probably be closer.

Edit: One of the interesting platforms that Lasso is very clear on that Leni is not: he plans on turning Julian Assange over to the authorities, as he has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for the past few years to avoid arrest.