The football coach is determined not to lose the game and decides on radical, extreme measures, but which he considers safe: even though there are still 30 long minutes left, he orders many of his ten players in the field to adjust side by side, side by side , in the 7.32 meter width of the door so that the shooter, who is the leader in that situation, does not make a mistake. However, no matter how tall the players are, at least 60 cm will remain uncovered up to the 2.44-meter height of the goal itself, and goals can be scored there as well, if the opponent’s skill or the delayed reaction of one of the seats allows. it. Then he puts the reserve, those who are outside the field, to shoot towards the same 60 cm that his opponent also leaves with a similar strategy of masonry. And in the middle of the field, as well as on the flanks, there will be no creativity, and even less great individuality.

This is where Daniel Noboa and Luisa González stand a little more than a month before the second round, according to two surveys of voting intentions

This, more or less, is how the final candidates for the president of Ecuador for next October 15 look to the public: walled in their measured statements because their strategists prefer to keep the goal like this, rather than come out and look for a counterattack, on a wave of fakes, not really fakes, and colorful phrases that are attributed from one side to the other, trying to capture the attention of young people. The much-desired centenarian voice.

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During the week ending, I saw at least two interviews from each side that were canceled even minutes before they could be recorded. Proposals from professional, independent journalists were solicited, and their bureaus initially accepted, so that his and her plans for the country would be taken seriously. Deep dialogues that were not possible until now because the strategy seems to have rigidly turned towards the fun, witty, dancing one, where there is less talk and more sympathy, so that the one who is applying for the highest magistracy in the country does not face “controversies” of questions which can give filet mignon to hordes of manipulative trolls who are, on both sides, hyperactive.

(…) walled in their measured speeches because their strategists prefer to keep the goal like this, rather than go out and look for a counterattack…

This digital “war” that has been successfully tested in electorates as complex as the United States, Brazil or Mexico seems to be the only strategy that both campaigns are defending and counter-attacking, from now until October 15, which will not be the 30 minutes that football the coach has to endure squatting, but 30 long days that remain until the return to the elections. In order to discuss the transcendental topics of the national reality, certain media had to turn to non-parliamentary ex-candidates, especially those who are not affiliated with any of the finalists.

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The fragility in the handling of speeches, the lack of depth of content surrounding the proposal and, above all, the lack of popular digital culture, which has massed manipulation through networks, deprive the country of a complete knowledge of whether what the finalists propose is true, which is what we really need in this wave of crisis. There is still time until the final whistle. Stand out! Play! Convince us of your genius! and achieve electoral goals. (OR)