Ecuadorean presidential candidate for the Creating Opportunities party Guillermo Lasso | Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images Ecuador presidential candidate promises to evict Julian Assange from embassy Main opposition candidate said WikiLeaks founder’s asylum expensive and not justified.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be asked to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London within a month if the country’s main opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso wins the presidential elections next week.

In an interview with the Guardian, Lasso, who belongs to the right-wing Creo-Suma alliance, said after over four years, it was time for Assange 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. “We will cordially ask Señor Assange to leave within 30 days of assuming a mandate.”

Ahead of the first round of voting on February 19, polls show Lasso is seven points behind ruling party candidate Lenín Moreno, but the former banker has been gaining support and will probably make it to a run-off.