The presidential and legislative elections of Ecuador They have this Sunday their general day with more than 13.7 million voters called the polls to determine their authorities until 2029.
The current president, Daniel Noboa, and the candidate of Correism, Luisa González, are the favorites for the presidency, according to international media.
The doors of the 4439 voting centers were opened from 7:00 local time and will receive voters until 5:00 p.m., at which time the polls will be closed and scrutiny will begin that can be extended.
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For the presidential election there will be a second round on April 13 if this Sunday no candidate achieves half plus one of the votes or, in another valid scenario, at least 40 % of the votes and a minimum advantage of ten percentage points over the rest.
They appear sixteen presidential candidates, but Noboa (National Democratic Action – DNA) and González (Citizen Revolution – RC) have polarized the race to reach the Carondelet Palace, from Quito, where the headquarters of the presidency of Ecuador is located.
Noboa, heir to one of the country’s greatest fortunes, already defeated González in the extraordinary elections of 2023, held to complete the 2021-2025 period and that Guillermo Lasso did not culminate.
Meanwhile, González Enarbola the hope of the correist movement to return to the national government after eight years away from him.
Assembly is reconfigured
In these elections, the members of the National Assembly are also elected, which will go from having 137 assembly members to have 151 legislators, as well as five representatives for the Andean Parliament.
The expectation for the Legislative will be concentrated in the possibility that DNA can become the first force in the hemicycle and displace the citizen revolution of the camera control currently.
446 000 registered abroad
In Ecuador the vote is mandatory for people from 18 to 64 years under imposition of a fine of $ 45, while it is optional for adolescents aged 16 and 17, for people 65 years and older, and for police members National and armed forces.
It is also optional for the more than 446,000 registered abroad that are enabled to vote in 39 countries, with the most numerous communities in the United States, Spain and Italy.
Ecuador premieres 2025 with aggravation of the political and security crisis
In the previous days the early vote of prisoners was made without firm conviction and people over 50 and at least 75 % disability who requested their votes from their own homes, which in total added around 2000 voted that will be computed next to the rest once the electoral enclosures close this Sunday.
The elections are held under the “internal armed conflict” declared by Noboa since last year against organized crime, the cause of the escalation of violence that led the country to register in 2023 the highest homicide rate in Latin America and that, together with The crisis in the electricity generation and the collapse of the economy, projects a hard political landscape for whatever the winner.
With EFE information.
