A politically fragmented country with war criminal groups that led to one of the highest homicide rates in Latin America. Meanwhile, the economy drags on with low growth and an energy crisis that has damaged business. This is Ecuador, which has presidential elections scheduled for this Sunday (9).
About 13.7 million voters go to the Unas to choose not only the president, but also 151 representatives for the National Assembly and 5 for the Andean Parliament.
Although there are 16 majority plates competing, the dispute is tapered and repeats the confrontation of the early election of 2023, when they beat Luisa González in the second round.
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From the surveys, the result should be repeated: noboa has something between 41% and 45% of preferences – being close to 50% valid votes necessary to stay in power, while González is between 27% and 31%.
As in Brazil, the presence of voters is mandatory, but the election has no electronic ballot boxes. People will receive four different color banknotes in which they can mark the candidate of their choice in the presidential dispute and choose the legislators in a list of list. Any erasure, nullifies the vote, and blank notes are not accounted for as valid votes.
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Businessman Noboa, who won the extraordinary elections to replace Guillermo Lasso, who dissolved Congress and called on early elections to prevent the legislature from depriving him after an impeachment trial for corruption.
In these almost two years in power, he has printed a line of strong combat to organized crime, often using decrees that expanded the power of security forces. Last week, he doubled the bet, ordering the country’s borders to close – to avoid an alleged threat of external criminal interference – and sent a proposal to change the constitution, facilitating preventive arrests.
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In the economy, it followed a liberal line, with spending containment, but also took steps to increase tax collection.
Its main opponent comes from the left field, as lawyer Luisa González comes from the ranks of Ciudadana revolution, although she distanced herself from former President Rafael Correa, who today lives in exile in Belgium after being convicted of corruption.
The candidate has been going through the country for a year and a half, in an attempt to become known to the general public, since her participation in the National Assembly was summed up to a short term, without much participation.
