The electoral campaign overlooking the second round closed in Ecuador without clearing tensions and unknowns. President Daniel Noboa and Luisa González, the candidate of Correismo, did nothing but reproduce the mood of the first turn in February, when there were practically no differences of votes between the two contestants. The virtual technical tie He tests the efficacy of surveys once again in a country where the possibility of error is recurrent. The candidates made their last call to supporters and undecided in Guayaquil, The city that suffers most urban violence in recent years.
“Guayaquil this Sunday will give a lesson to this failed revolution, to those bad rulers and the mafias,” said the president. “González highlighted in his” caravan for life “in the same city as this time the party that has the exile Rafael Correa as a reference he could reach agreements with other forces to achieve success at the polls.” The best men and the best women without a political flag, we will work for you, we will work for you Hum hate is over, the confrontation is over. “
Noboa and González had also crossed Wednesday in Quito, the Ecuadorian capital. The young president, Son of the country’s main fortune, Álvaro Noboa’she had gathered about 14,000 people at the Rumiñahui General Coliseum. Before them he reiterated his battery of promises. The brief mandate with which the failed management of Guillermo Lassowho preferred in 2023 to resign to be ceased by Congress, is, according to the candidate, is what allows him to light the flame of hope of everything that can be done with more time and effort. “We will continue until all Ecuadorians have a better life“Once again, Noboa made his campaign by proliferating real -sized cardboard figures.” It has become a national symbol, a cardboard figure has shown to have a soul and is the soul of struggle of all Ecuadorians, those who prefer a free and dignity country. “
For consultant Alejandro Zavala, Noboa avoided this time focusing his efforts on the digital universe and toured the country. “The strategy has been to bring the government closer to people.” Other observers remember that in recent months the Head of State has made too many mistakes, since his fight with the vice president, Verónica Abad, to the energy and security crises, which this Sunday can cost him expensive.
González has insisted both Quito and Guayaquil that “Ecuador has retreated in the last eight years”since Rafael Correa gave Power to Lenin Moreno and, against what was expected, a process of dismantling the project of the so -called Citizen Revolution began. González, who was already defeated by Noboa, wants to win at all costs this time. On the one hand, he achieved the support of the indigenous movement, historically hostile to Correa, and, at the same time, He announced that the former presidential candidate, entrepreneur of the Security Sector and self -promoted by the Foreign Legion, Jan Topic, He will join his government as Minister of the Interior. The candidate has highlighted her ability to “unite left and right” to promote a political change.
The consultant Gustavo Isch considered the will of Noboa to radicalize his Approach to Donald Trump. In his opinion, the bad results of the Phoenix Plan, as his security policy was called to defeat drug bands, “have forced him to generate a new tactic to attract the attention of spectacular advertising, as he usually does constantly, by bringing to an American mercenary (Erik Prince) and his team to advise the armed forces, to the police and execute even some actions that have not been properly clarified “. González herself recalled in her campaign closure that Ecuador “You don’t need gringos that all they want is our money.
Trump and Ayuso
But Noboa not only sought to strengthen ties with Trump. The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayusohas constituted another of its blazons these days of electoral frenzy. Ayuso went to Quito to reinforce the official campaign. In a rally he assured that “socialism goes out to not return” and, therefore, he called Ecuadorians to avoid “May this prosperous land fall again to them, Empty words, populism that the only thing he wants is more control. “In allusion to the Correa years, he urged to say” no “narcodictaduras, to oppression, to Bolivarian socialism, which always ruins lives and wants to have his people subjected.”
Not only Ayuso went out to ask for the vote in favor of Noboa. The main press media have preferred to strengthen rows around the president despite his mismanagement. “Sunday’s ballot presents two types of country. One is a clear statist model, which was already in power for a decade, and another with inclination to strengthen the private, but continues to buildN, “recalled the capital newspaper ´La ‘. And he added:” There are two options and the country will choose. With so few votes in dispute and when the zero percentage is far from invalidating the choice, it is useless to close your eyes and let others decide for you. Since the campaign started, more than a year ago, the trends and intentions of each political side are clear. His mistakes, his scope, his ideas and his hatred; also his allies. “And he added:” The world has been able to see what it implies being a friend of dictatorships or being a friend of freedom; of the terrorism of the Middle East or of the fresh Latin American libertarian ideas; sI take care of the dollar or if they will sing to Che Guevara“.
