Ecuador goes to the ballot, challenge between Gonzalez and Noboa
Ecuador will have to wait a few more months to know the name of its new president. Luisa González, 45, loyal to former progressive president Rafael Correa, and Daniel Noboa, 35, son of one of the richest entrepreneurs in the country (defeated by Correa in a presidential runoff), will compete in the second round on October 15 .
The result came at the end of an apparently calm but tense election day, dominated by fears of violence from drug traffickers, in a country still in shock over the assassination of centrist candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
A country that, with a historic voter turnout – more than 82% – nonetheless wanted to give a strong signal of willingness to take back the reins of its security and its destiny. An electoral round that was nonetheless registered an attempt at sabotage, and the platform was used to register the votes of Ecuadorians abroad under cross-attacks launched by India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine, Indonesia and China, and in Europe focused mainly on everything. Spain and Italy.
Gonzalez, a lawyer, animal rights activist, but also against abortion in cases of rape, is determined to integrate Correa (accused of corruption and now in exile in Belgium) in his executive. The only woman in debate, she led the results with more than 30%, without nonetheless reaching the threshold necessary to take home an immediate victory. The candidate of the Revolucion Ciudadana movement assured that the eventual priority of his government will be to fight “very serious infiltration of drug trafficking”.
Contesting the leadership of Palazzo Carondelet is Daniel Noboa, with more than 24% of the votes. The son of banana tycoon Álvaro Noboa, he is the youngest in the electoral contest. He succeeded in establishing himself somewhat surprisingly, in terms of the security of the candidate of the National Democratic Action (ADN) has a recipe that also involves a different distribution of prisoners in prison. And in addition, it aims to create jobs through entrepreneurship opportunities.
Christian Zurita, an anti-narco journalist who took to the track for Movman Construye after the murder of Villavicencio, finished third in the discussion, surpassing 16.295. Fourth place went to the Ecuadorian Bolsonaro, former paratrooper Jan Topic (about 14%), while none of the other four candidates exceeded 10%.
In reality, nonetheless, the new head of state will not have much room to change things. In fact, those elected will remain in office for a little over a year. Until the expiration of the legislature. After that, we will return to the vote in 2025, for a regular term.
Indeed, in May conservative president Guillermo Lasso invoked the constitutional clause of “muerte cruzada” (mutual death) and dissolved the opposition-controlled Parliament to escape impeachment, creating the conditions for this early vote. .
Ecuador goes to the ballot, challenge between Gonzalez and Noboa
Ecuador will have to wait a few more months to know the name of its new president. Luisa González, 45, loyal to former progressive president Rafael Correa, and Daniel Noboa, 35, son of one of the country’s richest entrepreneurs (defeated by Correa in a presidential runoff), will compete in the second round on October 15.
The result came at the end of an apparently calm but tense election day, dominated by fears of violence from drug traffickers, in a country still in shock over the assassination of centrist candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
A country that, with a historic voter turnout – more than 82% – nonetheless wanted to give a strong signal of willingness to take back the reins of its security and its destiny. An electoral round that was nonetheless registered an attempt at sabotage, and the platform was used to register the votes of Ecuadorians abroad under cross-attacks launched by India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine, Indonesia and China, and in Europe focused mainly on everything. Spain and Italy.
Gonzalez, a lawyer, animal rights activist, but also against abortion in cases of rape, is determined to integrate Correa (accused of corruption and now in exile in Belgium) in his executive. The only woman in debate, she led the results with more than 30%, without nonetheless reaching the threshold necessary to take home an immediate victory. The candidate of the Revolucion Ciudadana movement assured that the eventual priority of his government will be to fight “very serious infiltration of drug trafficking”.
Contesting the leadership of Palazzo Carondelet is Daniel Noboa, with more than 24% of the votes. The son of banana tycoon Álvaro Noboa, he is the youngest in the electoral contest. He succeeded in establishing himself somewhat surprisingly, in terms of the security of the candidate of the National Democratic Action (ADN) has a recipe that also involves a different distribution of prisoners in prison. And in addition to that, it aims to create jobs through entrepreneurship opportunities.
Christian Zurita, an anti-narco journalist who took to the track for Movman Construye after the murder of Villavicencio, finished third in the discussion, surpassing 16.295. Fourth place went to the Ecuadorian Bolsonaro, former paratrooper Jan Topic (about 14%), while none of the other four candidates exceeded 10%.
In reality, nonetheless, the new head of state will not have much room to change things. In fact, those elected will remain in office for a little over a year. Until the expiration of the legislature. After that, we will return to the vote in 2025, for a regular term.
Indeed, in May conservative president Guillermo Lasso invoked the constitutional clause of “muerte cruzada” (mutual death) and dissolved the opposition-controlled Parliament to escape impeachment, creating the conditions for this early vote. .
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