Daniel Noboa was re -elected as president of Ecuador In the second round of the elections played this Sunday, while her rival, the correísta Luisa González, denounced fraud.
With more than 90 % of the recorded minutes, the current president led the scrutiny with about 56 % of the votes compared to 44 % of González, which the National Electoral Council (CNE) considered an “irreversible trend.”
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With more than 9⃣0⃣% of scrutinized acts, an irreversible tendency is marked in favor of @Danielnoboaok In the results of the #SegundavueltaPresidencial.
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– Cnegobec (@cnegobec) April 14, 2025
Novoa, only 37 years old and leader of the National Democratic Action Movement (DNA), celebrated the victory, in his “historical” opinion, and assured that the difference of more than one million votes in their favor at the polls leaves no doubt that “who is the winner,” review The agency EFE.
“Ecuador is changing. Ecuador has already chosen a different path,” said the president, who since he reached the presidency in 2023 has been in the center of controversies for his hard hand policies and his publicized dispute with his first vice president, Verónica Abad.
“Ecuadorians want a better life and have chosen a project that they trust that they will give them that life better,” Noboa told their followers after the announcement of the CNE. In addition, he pointed directly against former president Rafael Correa and Luisa González, candidate of the Correísta Citizen Revolution Party.
“Ecuador does not want to return to the past,” said the president, who after his new electoral triumph must remain in power until 2029.
The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, celebrates his triumph in the presidential elections and ensures that victory has “been historical.” Noboa says that “who is the winner” does not doubt, although his rival, candidate González, has denounced fraud. https://t.co/gdx1ri7p5m
– Efe News (@Efenoticias) April 14, 2025
Correism denounces fraud
For his part, Luisa González did not accept the results of the CNE, which he accuses of favoring Noboa, and said that “Ecuador is living a dictatorship and the most grotesque fraud in its history.”
The presidential candidate said that “the citizen revolution has always recognized a defeat when the surveys and ‘trackings'” have demonstrated, but emphasized that this was not the case and anticipated that her party will ask for a reconteo of the votes.
According to González – a press reports – the surveys gave it as a winner, even those closest to the Noboa government, while two polls in the urn’s mouth had opposite results, but with margins much more closed than the one that the current president would officially have achieved.
In addition, both she and Rafael Correa referred to the fact that the candidate now achieved the almost the same result as in the first round.
“How can it be credible that even a vote was not grew? How can it be credible that eleven surveys were wrong?” Gonzalez asked.
“Everyone knows that these results are impossible. We get the same 44 % of the first round. These gangsters could hide a little more,” consideredFor his part, Rafael Correa.
️ #Decideecuador2025 || Presidential ex -candidate for the @Rc5oficial, @Luisagonzalezecdenounce electoral fraud after the first official results of the ballot. “There are about 11 surveys in which all, even those of the same government, gave us the victory,” he emphasizes. pic.twitter.com/g1POF3OBDK
– Radio Pichincha (@radio_pichincha) April 14, 2025
THE ELECTORAL AND THE FUTURE
The elections were held in a country affected by a growing violence linked to drug trafficking and an economic crisis that has generated frequent blackouts and social discontent.
In this scenario, participation in the second electoral round amounted to 83.76 % – they were summoned to vote more than 13.7 million Ecuadorians – and the day was developed normally, according to the authorities.
However, the press offices highlight the strong prevailing security measures, with hooded soldiers and with long weapons on the street, due to the “internal armed conflict” declared by Noboa since the beginning of 2024 to counteract criminal violence in the country.
Precisely, the fight against crime remains one of the buzas of the current president for his second term, as well as economic revitalization under his plan called “New Ecuador.”
Although Noboa was already proclaimed winner for the CNE, it remains to be seen what could happen to the questions of the results and the demand of a reconteo by Luisa González and the supporters of the citizen revolution.
This, in the opinion of analysts, could prolong the political uncertainty in Ecuador and accentuate polarization in the country, which would be added to existing economic and social problems and add new tensions to Daniel Noboa’s new mandate.
