This Sunday 13 million Ecuadorians will go to the polls to elect the new president for the next four years. It will be an open ballotage, Without a clear favorite. The candidates are the current right -wing president Daniel Noboa and the referent of correismo Luisa González. The surveys are divided in equal halves among which they give winner to one or the other.
Tomorrow’s ballotage marks the polarization and uncertainty scenario that Ecuador lives, crossed by a long political crisis. Both candidates represent different projects and have different stories. The current president, Noboa, 37, belongs to one of the richest families in the country, with a long lineage of entrepreneurs. González, 47, is a lawyer with the past in the government of Rafael Correa, today exiled in Belgium, with left and/or progressive proposals.
ANDn the first round of February 9, there was almost a technical draw Among the two most voted candidates. The formula of Daniel Noboa-María José Pinto (National Democratic Action -ADN-) came first with the 44.17% of the votes, while Luisa González-Diego Borja (From the Revolution Citizen and Total Renewal -RC -ret 44%less than 20 thousand votes apart.
The elections will be held with a wide security operation to guard the polls and guarantee the right to vote, threatened by the criminal violence that has hit the country for a few years, especially for drug trafficking. Tomorrow 100,000 members of the security forces will be mobilized, distributed between 60,000 police and 40,000 military.
Noboa-González, two different country proposals
Luisa González is facing the great possibility of returning to Citizen Revolution To power, after several years of electoral defeats and, they denounce, a political-judicial persecution initiated in the government of Lenin Moreno, the successor of Rafael Correa who ended up faced with him.
His government proposal resembles the central lines of Correa governments: state intervention, new subsidies and social policies. His campaign message was less technical and revolved around the future and hope.
“Today I don’t walk alone, we walk together: The best men and women, without distinction, with a single commitment: serve Ecuador. Hate is over, the confrontation is over. Unity is real and it is for social justice, #Porlavida! “he promised in his social networks.
Meanwhile, Daniel Noboa seeks the re -election of his short term. He assumed the presidency at the end of 2023 after the then right -wing president Guillermo Lasso dissolved the Parliament and called elections before the threat of being dismissed in a political trial. The winner was Noboa. His mandate was crossed by a long crisis, Confrontations with his vice, Verónica Abad, increased insecurity and drug trafficking, and lightsfins. Despite this, he won the first round and wants to repeat this Sunday.
Your government has focused on “Recover the hope of the country” and have “firm hand” Against crime, he said in the presidential debate. Today it promises to modernize the country and carry out liberal reforms in the economy and increase investment in security, with greater participation of the Armed Forces.
He seeks to show himself as a strong man who fights against challenges. In his social networks he asked: “This country cannot give it to the mafias. We will never give in, we will continue advancing, we will continue to go forward. Thank you, Guayaquil.”
This Sunday will be known which of the two proposals will be chosen by most Ecuadorians.
Source: Ambito
