Very difficult tasks await the new president, who yesterday assumed the office to which we elected him on October 15. Some are campaign offers, others are simply loud requests from citizens, in front of which you have no other option than to devote yourself to them as a priority and you will demand the delivery of all the hours you do not devote to the necessary rest. President Daniel Noboa starts with 60.2% support, in contrast to the 21% with which the outgoing president leaves office. The last National Assembly ended with 4% and unfortunately the sovereign got confused and mostly re-elected him; and he could end up conspiring against the executive, just as he did with former President Guillermo Lasso.

“There are many wishes, but we long for peace and security”: this is what Ecuadorians expect from President Daniel Noboa in these 18 months

National indicators (commented on in the show on TV station Democracia this week) give a gloomy panorama caused especially by insecurity, very low growth of the gross domestic product (1.5% this year); this year’s departure of 127,000 Ecuadorians who did not return; Remittances from expatriates are 5 times higher than foreign investment, yet Colombia and Peru are ahead of us as centers for receiving foreign investment; Only a third of the population is fully employed, and the rest is assumed to be in catastrophic unemployment or underemployment.

Until when will Daniel Noboa be president?

A recent Cedatos poll, conducted between November 17 and 19, asked how is the country doing? showed that only 23% answered that they were on the right track. The population is most worried about insecurity caused by violent drug trafficking cartels and ordinary crime (45.2%). Most of us agree that life in the countryside is no longer the same, then comes stress due to lack of work and uncertainty caused by insufficient employment (18%), to which is added the economic situation of poverty and crisis. 15.3%) reaches 33.5% of respondents.

Prioritizing the fight against insecurity and unemployment, as well as generational changes, is emphasized by the business sector in the first speech of President Daniel Noboa

This is how, starting today, the best efforts of the new government must be directed to achieve quick and effective results, especially in the fight against the causes of insecurity among Ecuadorians, so that the productive population does not continue to close its commercial establishments in the face of extortionate harassment, mainly in coastal cities.

Fight violence by attacking unemployment, Daniel Noboa’s pledge to start his 18-month presidency

From this column, we wish President Noboa that the task force he has chosen is fit to serve in the best interest of the needs of the people of this beloved national soil. I hope to be able to restore the full connection with the citizens, lost in the outgoing government, especially with the middle class who, just as it happened in the beginning with President Lasso, this time expects a better government from the new tenant of Carondelet, paraphrasing Javier Milei, who said that he considers himself a professor who works as the president and at the same time a temporary tenant of the Casa Rosada in the capital of Argentina. Something else, here we also have to fight against the offensive “caste” and remember not to experience someone else’s happiness. (OR)