If we compare the early presidential race with a 100-meter race, we can say that the candidates are entering the last 10 meters to win the election, on a straight track: without a clear mark left or right, the track is the center, where the latest electoral political effort requires strength and control to be faster.

Let’s see how

It is not a long-distance race; It’s a race of speed. Without an ideological background, the candidates in the first 90 meters maintained a constant speed in spreading government programs that were not conceived for an extremely short time, and even coincided with some proposals, such as the militarization of borders, ports and airports. immediate reaction to organized crime; use of international reserves for urgent social needs; promotion of regular and orderly mining, and the fight against illegal mining as a mechanism of drug laundering; the importance of restoring liquidity to IESS and focusing efforts on young people: their access to higher education and the protection of their mental health.

For voting on the 15th

In these last 10 meters, the candidates must show their differences, so that undecided or reluctant voters have the necessary information for a free and rational vote. Candidate Luisa González, taking advantage of the experience in public management that she and the group supporting her have as a result of ten years in government. Candidate Daniel Noboa, positioning his experience in private management, in the various business functions he performed in his family group, which constitutes the largest and most important economic group in the country.

Outside the presidential debate

The race for the presidency of Ecuador could take as a reference what happened in the recent electoral process in Spain, where an unforgettable moment between the two candidates was caused by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of the Popular Party, when he challenged Pedro Sánchez, of the Socialist Party, to sign the State Pact for Spain, suggesting that, regardless of the election result, the new government has the political support of the losers. This challenge should be a reference for our political reality, given the circumstances we are going through in the country. Support that would enable the new government not to give in to political parties and movements that, without significant representation in the legislature, ultimately govern the country, through negotiations for votes in the National Assembly, in order to gain support for structural reforms. which citizens demand at the moment, such as security, employment, education and child malnutrition. Also preventing the negotiable currency from being a space of state management, which is reflected in the niches of systematized corruption that characterizes our political reality.

This presidential 100-meter race could become a true race of substance and form, befitting the political transformation that our country demands, deserves and demands. (OR)