Ecuador - 01/01/2024 - Local level

• The state guarantees and promotes the parity and representation of women and men in nominated or appointed roles of the public function; in its legislative and executive bodies; in political parties and movements. In the candidacies for two-person and multiperson elections, alternated and sequential participation will be mandatory. (Code of democracy – Electoral law, article 3)
• The electoral system respects the principles of proportionality, equality of votes, equity, parity and alternation between men and women. (Code of democracy – electoral Law, article 4)
• The candidates must be selected through primary elections or internal democratic electoral processes that guarantee the equal participation between men and women, applying the principles of parity, alternation, sequencing between the members, supporters, activists, sympathizers, or independent persons. (Code of democracy – electoral law, article 94)
• The candidatures for multi-candidate constituencies will present in complete lists with principal candidates and their respective substitutes. The lists will be presented with parity and sequence of women-men or men-women until the end of principal and alternate candidacies. For provincial elections, out of the total of lists that the political organisation registers at the national level for the election, 50% must be headed by women. In the case of mayoral elections, of the total number of candidates that the political organization registers at the provincial level, fifty percent (50%) will be women. (Code of democracy – electoral law, article 99)
• In the case of council elections, of the total lists that the political organization registers at the provincial level, 50% will be headed by women. (Code of democracy – electoral Law, article 99)
• In the case of election of parochial boards, of the total of lists that the political organization registers at the cantonal level, 50% will be headed by women. (Code of democracy – electoral law, article 99)
• In each of the lists for multi-person elections registered by the political organization, regardless of the constituency, at least twenty-five percent (25%) will include young women or men. The same percentage of young people will be respected for candidacies of the political organization at the national level in the case of mayors and prefectures. This percentage may include the percentage by parity. (Code of democracy – electoral law, article 99)
• In elections of all binomials, the candidacies are made up with the participation of a woman and a man or vice versa. (Code of democracy – electoral law, article 99)
• Once the candidatures have been submitted and prior to their qualification, the National electoral council, the regional, provincial, district or special electoral boards abroad, as the case may be, will notify with the payroll of the same to the political subjects, within a period of one day. (Code of democracy - electoral law, article 101)
• If one or more candidates do not meet the requirements established in the Constitution and the law, the electoral authority will reject the candidacy or the list. Once the causes that motivated its rejection have been overcome, the candidacy or the list may be presented again. In the new list, which must be presented within two days, only candidates who were rejected by the electoral authority may be changed. In the event that the new candidates have proven disability, the list will be definitively rejected. (Code of democracy - electoral law, article 104)
• The National Electoral Council and the Provincial Electoral Boards may not deny the registration of candidates, except in the following cases: that the lists and candidacies do not strictly respect the principles and rules of parity, alternation between women and men, as well as the inclusion of young people. (Code of Democracy - Electoral Law, article 105)
• In all cases of appointment of vice mayor or vice mayor, whatever the circumstance, the principle of parity will be respected, electing a man from among the councilors if the first authority of the mayoralty is a woman, or a woman, if it is a man. (Code of Democracy - Electoral Law, article 167)