Questions abound as Ecuador heads to presidential runoff

Presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso, representing the Creating Opportunities party or CREO, flashes a thumbs up after attending an event with rival Yaku Perez, of the Pachakutik political party, in which both are asking for a ballot recount of Sunday's election, in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. It remains undecided which of the two has the votes to advance to the run-off race in April to face frontrunner Andres Arauz. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso, representing the Creating Opportunities party or CREO, sitting across from rival Yaku Perez, with the Pachakutik political party, attends an event outside the National Electoral Committee office in which they are both asking for a ballot recount of Sunday's election, in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. It remains undecided which of the two has the votes to advance to the run-off race in April to face frontrunner Andres Arauz. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

The top candidate in Sunday’s ballot Andres Arauz, presidential candidate for the United for Hope Alliance or UNES, speaks at a press conference in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. Long after polls closed, it was not clear if Arauz would face Guillermo Lasso, in his third run for the presidency after a long career in business, banking and government, or Yaku Pérez, an Indigenous rights and environmental activist, in the April 11 runoff election. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Yaku Perez, presidential candidate of the Pachakutik political party, talks into a bullhorn outside the National Electoral Council in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Perez and his supporters are demanding observers be vigilant of the vote count as the second slot for the upcoming presidential runoff remains undecided between former banker Guillermo Lasso and Perez, an Indigenous rights and environmental activist. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)