Daniel Noboa has 44.36 % of the votes and Luisa González 43.90 %, after 88 % of scrutiny.
The presidential elections of Ecuador will be resolved in a second round on Sunday, April 13 that will face the current president and candidate for re -election, Daniel Noboa, and the presidential candidate of Correism, Luisa González, who already starred in the ballot of the elections extraordinary 2023.
In the elections held this Sunday, Noboa and González concentrated 88.27 % of the valid votes, which confirms the polarization that has characterized this process since their electoral campaign, which always revolved around them two despite other fourteen candidates in contest.
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With an 83.75 % advance in scrutiny, the National Democratic Action candidate (DNA) achieved 44.63 % of the valid votes, while Luisa González obtained 43.81 %.
While an urn mouth survey 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 barrier of 50 % of the votes.
Thirdly, the leftist candidate of the Leonidas Iza (Pachakutik) indigenous movement is, with 4.92 % of the votes, followed by the environmental activist Andrea González Náder (Patriotic Society), with 2.71 %. The other twelve candidates do not even reach 1 % of votes each.
A strong polarization
These results mark again a polarization in Ecuador with President Noboa installed as the main spearhead of anticorreism against the progressive legacy of former president Correa, which still has a faithful basis of voters and who 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 of 2023, when he was surprised to proclaim himself the winner of the contest to complete the 2021-2025 mandate that President Guillermo Lasso did not culminate after his early departure from power of power .
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For González, these are the best results of Correism without Correa as a candidate, which remains in Belgium as a refugee after being politically disabled and sentenced in 2020 to eight years in prison for corruption in the case of irregular financing of the then official movement Country alliance.
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 in 2023.
González: “A great victory”
After being evident that Noboa stayed far from winning in the first round, González considered these results as a “great victory.”
“We are the great victors. We face a ‘candidate-president’ who used state assets to campaign,” González criticized.
“He has violated all legal regulations, he has committed an illicit act by using the state’s assets and resources to campaign. saying.
González thus referred to the fact that Noboa campaigned without requesting a license from the position and delegating him to Vice President Verónica Abad, with whom he is faced, but in an interim vice president that he appointed by decree, against what was dictated by the Constitutional Court.
Therefore, during the election day, the Correísta candidate was the first of several presidential applicants who denounced “irregularities” and an alleged favor of favor towards Noboa by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which they blame for not having taken measures in front to the questioned actions of the president.
Meanwhile, in a hotel in the financial zone of Quito, a 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, when at the beginning the appearance of the president was expected.
A divided parliament
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 leftist candidate of the Leonidas Iza indigenous movement (Pachakutik), whom González has already called on unity.
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.
