Fernando Villavicencio fatally shot last week after leaving a campaign event in capital, Quito
The political party of Ecuador’s assassinated presidential hopeful, Fernando Villavicencio, picked its vice-presidential candidate to replace him on Saturday, just a week before the election.
Villavicencio’s Build party, or Construye in Spanish, announced on social media that Andrea González is replacing the 59-year-old as its presidential candidate in the 20 August vote.
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