Yes, Lasso reversed the trend In this Country Email List framework, and in light of the results of April 11, a first conclusion can be drawn: whoever did the calculations correctly was the right, not correista populism. Lasso's stubbornness in going to the second Country Email List round, even violating his word, has a justification: he knew that, despite the wide difference achieved in the first round (32.7% to 19.7%), Arauz was a winning candidate. Not only because Country Email List of his discursive poverty, because of his docility and because of the discredit of Correismo, but because Lasso's campaign strategists, led by Jaime Durán Barba, had some aces up their sleeve. Let's see.
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The phrase "Andrés, don't lie again", with Country Email List which he hammered the debate, flooded both social networks and the political environment in a few hours. The idea of a candidate who did not tell the truth was cleverly positioned. The revelation Country Email List of an employment relationship between Arauz and the government of Lenín Moreno as an official of the Central Bank, which he tried to deny with misleading arguments, was used as the Country Email List spearhead of Lasso's dirty campaign.