Moreno’s election lacks legitimacy for about half of the electorate amid allegations of electoral fraud

By Carlos De la Torre, Professor of Sociology, University of Kentucky. After 10 years in power, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa will step down. However, political power isn’t falling far from the tree. Correa’s hand-picked successor and former vice president, Lenin Moreno, has declared victory against liberal banker Guillermo Lasso. The election has calmed fears that Correa…