Running mate of slain Ecuador candidate will run in his place

Running mate of slain Ecuadoran candidate Fernando Villavicencio, Andrea Gonzalez, will run in his place in upcoming August 20 elections

Andrea Gonzalez, the ex-running mate of assassinated presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio and now presidential candidate for the Movimiento Construye party, attending a ceremony in his honour at the Centre of Exhibitions in Quito. / Photo: AFP

The running mate of slain Ecuadoran candidate Fernando Villavicencio will run for president in his place in the August 20 elections, their party said. "The movement will replace the presidential ticket by putting Andrea Gonzalez as president," the centrist Construye party said in a statement on Saturday.

Villavicencio, a 59-year-old journalist and prominent anti-corruption crusader, was gunned down as he left a campaign rally in the capital Quito on Wednesday night.

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