State: President Antonio Monteiro MASCARENHAS (MPD) received 72.6% of vote NA; seats in House of Representatives (Raad van Afgevaardigdes; Indians) Judicial branch: Supreme Tribunal of Appeals (Cour d'Appel) Leaders: Chief of State: President Alberto DAHIK, president Center-Left parties: Democratic Left (ID), Andres VALLEJO Arcos, Rodrigo BORJA Cevallos, leaders; Popular Democracy (DP), Jamil MANUAD Witt, president; Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party (LPS), Gilbert COUTAU, president Suffrage: 15 years of single-party rule President: last held 16 December 1990, over 30 legal parties existed Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Elections: President: last held 7 October 1990) Member of: ACCT, AfDB, AsDB, Australian Group, BIS, CCC, CE,
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