Ecuador’s presidential elections will be resolved in a second round Among the current president, Daniel Noboaand the candidate for correism, Luisa Gonzálezafter a very close first round. Thus, Ecuadorians will return to the polls on April 13.
Waiting to complete the scrutiny, Noboa and González concentrated 88.27% of the vote despite there are another 14 candidates in Liza. With 83.75% of the accounted vote, the candidate for re -election by National Democratic Action (DNA) brought together 44.63% of the votes, while González added 43.81%.
Although at first a poll on the ballot box projected a possible victory of Noboa in the first round, this scenario was quickly diluted when the first results showed that it stayed below the 50% voter barrier. The current president, in fact, He suspended the act which he planned to celebrate with his supporters in view of the results.
In third place was the leftist candidate of the Leonidas Iza indigenous movement (Pachakutik), with 4.92%, followed by environmental activist Andrea González Náder, with 2.71%. The other 12 candidates did not reach 1% of votes each.
Results confirming the Polarization in Ecuadorwith President Noboa installed as the main spearhead of anticorreism in front of the progressive legacy of former president Correa, who still has a faithful basis of voters and has now managed to concentrate unhappy voters with the current president.
In the second round of 2023, Noboa already won González in the extraordinary elections, when he was surprised to proclaim himself to complete the 2021-2025 mandate that President Guillermo Lasso did not culminate after his early departure from power.
González celebrates the result as a “great victory”
For González, these are The best results of Correism without Correa As a candidate, who remains in Belgium as a refugee after being politically disabled and sentenced in 2020 to eight years in prison for corruption. The Correism came from registering in the first laps of the last three elections 39.96% with Lenín Moreno in 2017, 32.72% with Andrés Arauz in 2021 and 33.61% with González itself in 2023.
After being evident that Noboa had stayed far from winning in the first round, González presented the results as a “great victory.” “We are the great victors. We face a ‘candidate-president’ who used state assets to campaign, “he criticized.” He has violated all legal regulations, he has committed an illicit act by using the state’s assets and resources to make presidential campaign. We have faced that, “he denounced.
“He has made use of his power to issue decrees to appoint a new vice president,” continued the candidate, who referred to the fact that Noboa campaigned without requesting a license from the position and delegating him to Vice President Verónica Abad, with whom she is faced, but in an interim vice president who appointed by decree, against what was ruled by the Constitutional Court.
Therefore, during the election day, the Correísta candidate was the first of several candidates who denounced “irregularities” and an alleged favor of favor towards Noboa by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which they blame for not taking measures in front of The questioned actions of the president.
Noboa suspends its celebration
Meanwhile, in a hotel in the financial zone of Quito, national democratic action had prepared a Great celebration that was suspended And at all silence. No one from the official movement went out to talk to comment on the results, although the appearance of the president was initially expected.
Although the results for the National Assembly (Parliament) are still incipient, everything indicates that legislative will also be left in two, with a large block for DNA and another for Correism. And with a view to the second round, the support they can receive from other leaders who have obtained minority votes will be key, especially the IZA LEONIDAS (Pachakutik), which González has already called on the unit.
Elections in “Internal Armed Conflict”
The election day had an participation greater than 83 % and was held under strong security measures, with a large deployment of police and military, due to the “internal armed conflict” that Noboa has declared for more than a year declared to fight against organized crime and the escalation of violence and insecurity in the country.
In this context, the Ecuadorian police reported the Detention of 602 people that had judicial arrest orders in force for different crimes during the election day. In addition, he indicated that for strictly electoral issues he issued 916 citations for presentation before the authority and arrested 16 people for false suffrage, falsification and use of false document and impersonation of identity.
Among the citations to present themselves before the authority are 876 people for violating the known as “Dry Law”which prohibits the consumption of alcoholic beverages from last Friday until Monday. In the same way, he delivered citations to another 28 people for presenting themselves in a state of drunken .
Source: Lasexta
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