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Ecuador presidential hopeful promises to evict Assange
Jonathan Watts in Quito
Thursday 9 February 2017 01.30 EST
Julian Assange will be given a month’s notice to leave the Ecuadorian embassy if the country’s main opposition candidate wins the presidency in next week’s election.
In an interview with the Guardian, Guillermo Lasso, of the rightwing Creo-Suma alliance, said it was time for the WikiLeaks founder to move on because his asylum was expensive and no longer justified.
“The Ecuadorian people have been paying a cost that we should not have to bear,” he said during an interview in Quito. “We will cordially ask Señor Assange to leave within 30 days of assuming a mandate” ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/09/ecuador-julian-assange-embassy-notice-eviction