Police officers work outside the rally site where Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was killed at a campaign event in Quito, Ecuador August 9, 2023.
REUTERS/Karen ToroQUITO, Aug 10 (Reuters) - The murder of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has made some voters more wary of going to the polls on Aug. 20, making an unsettled election even harder to forecast.
Voters said they were afraid of more bloodshed, with some weighing whether to comply with mandatory voting rules.
"I am scared and I'm thinking about whether to go vote," said Quito manicurist Margarita Alvarado, 45.
"The assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio complicates what is already an atypical and complex political crisis in Ecuador," said Verisk Maplecroft chief analyst Jimena Blanco and lead Americas analyst Eileen Gavin in a note.
Persons:
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Organizations:
REUTERS, Voters, Twitter, Albanian mafia, Thomson
Locations:
Quito, Ecuador, Americas