The ‘Noboa de Cartón’ flooded, the town where the president of Ecuador votes
In balconies of houses, hotels or sitting in restaurant tables, the ‘Noboa de Cartón’ flooded olón, the coastal people of Ecuador where its president, Daniel Noboa votes this Sunday, in an election in which he seeks re -election and in those that are favorite with the candidate Correísta Luisa González.
These two -dimensional figures that recreate the Ecuadorian president to real size were already a viral phenomenon in social networks in the extraordinary elections of 2023, where Noboa surprised to proclaim himself winner, and in these new elections they have returned in greater numbers, distributed to hundreds in their electoral campaign acts.
With more than seven kilometers of coast, the commune of Oón, located in the coastal province of Santa Elena and declared a year ago as a magical corner of Ecuador by Noboa himself, houses the largest beach in Ecuador and its inhabitants live mainly of the tourism.
However, this weekend, as has happened in the last three elections that the country has lived, the influx of people low, according to merchants to the EFE agency and, on the other hand, the streets are filled with military and police before the Arrival of Noboa, who has his personal residence on the outskirts of the commune and votes in the school in the area.
In addition to the security forces, this year the town also filled with the president’s cardboard figures, which stand out against the few posters of González, the only two candidates, of the 16 who compete for the presidency, of Those spoken in olon.
Fabiola Shore is one of the inhabitants of the commune that placed the figure of Noboa outside his restaurant. She says she thinks he can improve the situation in the country. “We can no longer live in our homes as in prisons, with steel bars, for organized crime. That terrifies it to Ecuadorian and abroad … They are walking through the big cities and put a gun on a cell phone,” he lamented Shore (EFE)
