The Ecuador will select his next president in a runner -up election after Conservative Conservative Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer Luisa Gonzalaz, who got 14 other candidates with adequate votes on Sunday.
The competition set for April 13 will be a repetition of October 2023 SNAP election which earned a 16 -month president’s presidency to Noboa.
Noboa and Gonzalez are now dying for a full four -year term, promising voters to reduce broad criminal activity, which extended their lives before four.
Spikes in violence across the South American country are bound by cocaine smuggling produced in neighboring Colombia and Peru. So many voters have fallen victim to crime that their personnel and collective disadvantages were a determination factor in deciding whether the four -year gym .
Noboa, for the successor of a fate built on banana trade, and the most influential president of this century Ecuador was the protgi Gonzalaz, a clear front-colon before the election.
The data released by the National Electoral Council of Ecuador has shown that Noboa received more than 44.43%, with 80%of the ballot papers, while Gonzalez earned more than 3.69 million votes or more than 44.17%. 14 other candidates were behind him in the race.
Voting is mandatory in Ecuador. Electoral officials said that more than 83% of more than 83% eligible voters of 13.7 million voters cast ballots.
Crime, gang and deletion
Under the Noboa watch, in 2023, 46.18 per 100,000 people fell from 100,000 people to 38.76 per 100,000 people. Nevertheless, it was much higher than 6.85 per 100,000 people in 2019, and other crimes, abduction and deletion, touch the sky, making people feel leaving their homes.
“For me, this is the President’s disastrous,” 35 -year -old Marta Bairse said, who is at the polling station with three of his teenage children. “Can he change in four more years? No. Hey he did nothing.”
Beras, who would have to pay $ 25 per month to a local gang to avoid harassment or worse, said Gonzalaz said because she believes that she can reduce crime across the board and improve the economy Can do
Noboa defeated Gonzalez in October 2023 in October 2023, which began with the decision to dissolve the National Assembly and to shorten his mandate as a result. Noboa and Gonzalez, a patron of former President Rafael Korea, gave small indications as only MPs before starting their presidential campaigns that year.
To win a lump sum on Sunday, a candidate required a 50% vote or at least 40%, with a gain of 10 points on the nearest challenge.
More than 100,000 police officers and army members were deployed across the country to protect elections including polling stations. At least 50 officials Noboa, along with his wife and his 2 -year -old son, went to a polling station, where the President voted in the small Pacific coast community of Olon.
Laws of laws and criteria of governing criteria
37 -year -old Noboa opened an event event at the age of 18 and then joined his father’s Nobo Corp, where he was in positions in Management Shipping, Logistics and Commercial areas. His political career began in 2021, when he headed a seat in the National Assembly and its Economic Development Commission.
As President in the last 15 Mone, some of his Mano Dura, or heavy, strategy to reduce crime, came under the scope of investigation inside and outside the country to test the boundaries of government laws and norms. Is.
Their inquiry strategy includes the state of internal armed conflict, which he had declined to gather the army in January 2024 where organized crime has been caught, as well as the Embassy of Mexico in the former Vice President of Rajdhani arrest last year. But the police raid was approved, George Glass, a convicted criminal and a fugitive who had been living there for months.
However, his head-on approach is earning him votes.
“Noboa is the only person who kills organized crime,” the German Rizo was retired, who voted to re -run the prost, said, outside a polling station in Samborondon, out of a high -range area Along with the community, the ports of Guayakil were separated from the city.
‘Things are not going to change’
The 47-year-old Gonzalaz organized various government jobs during the Korea’s presidential presidency, leading the Ecuador from 2007 to 2017, with a free-doning society with conservative policies and as the President of power in his final year as President. Hey sentenced him to jail in 2020 in a corruption scam.
Gonzalez was a legalist from 2021 to May 2023, when Laso dissolved the National Assembly. She was unknown to most voters until Korea’s party chose her as the presidential candidate for the Snap election.
Quito’s USA Professor Maria Christina Bayes said that there was a “victory” for the Korea’s pre -election elections, which is anticipated a difference against the difference between Nobo and Gonzalez.
Dean Estabon Ron of the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences at the International University SEK at Quito said that Noboa would be forced to re -run his campaign to re -run that he has already reached his vote sealing. Ron blamed the result of the problem facing Noboa during his administration.
Waiting for his turn to vote in Guiakils, Architecture student Banana Torres said that she has not yet decided who to vote. None, he said, will be able to reduce crime in the ecuador due to deep root government corruption.
“If I could, I wouldn’t have been here,” Torres said, who saw three robberies in public buses in the last four years and barely survived a causative in December. “Things are not going to change.”
