By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean Indigenous presidential candidate Yaku Perez would revise mining concessions that do not comply with ...
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Candidates have pledged to fight crime and improve the struggling economy, amid unemployment woes which have increased migration. "If there are audits that say they are contaminating the environment, that they are poisoning water, that they haven't done prior consultations ...they will need to be revised," Perez said."If they have complied with social and environmental licenses they will continue."
Perez supports two environmental efforts also on the ballot on Sunday - one to shutter an oil block in a megadiverse part of the Amazon and a local bid to bar mining in a forest near Quito. He would approach Ecuador's multilateral creditors and bondholders to ask for payment extensions because of the difficult economic and security situation, he said.
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