Dabiel Noboa caresses his re -election with a flood of votes that he did not expect. According to the data of the National Electoral Council (CNE), the President obtains a surprising 55.95% of the votes when more than half of the electoral roll is scrutinized. Luisa González has reaped almost 44% of wills. The distance between competitors is unattainable. The surveys again showed serious difficulties in detecting the will of Ecuadorians in the elections that were presented as the most close in the political history of that country.
“Polarizationcaused by politicians by appealing to the lowest feelings of citizens affected by insufforstic problems, has left the country in half. They have done it with catastrophic signs and absolutist solutions, with little livelihood but with a lot of noise. “He held the newspaper ´La ‘in its Sunday editorial. However, that dividing line that was believed symmetrical between parties was revealed fallacious. The result causes enormous surprise taking into account that in the first round both candidates were in a situation of tenical tie and that parity was the parity.
Rafael Correa, Leader of the Citizen and Godfather Revolution of González, expressed his disagreement with the figures. “Our data gives exactly the other way around,” said the former president. Natural power and disasters cuts caused a deep anger in society. The failure in the facts of the security strategy did nothing more than deepen citizen fear. These factors had substantially improve González’s competitiveness in the first turn of February. The problems are still in the center of collective concerns. However, they did not translate into the expected “Punishment Vote” against Noboa. González had added to this confrontation to the indigenous movement, independent leftist sectors and even the right center. That summer has not translated into votes. The CNE figures have plunged the correism in a sea of perplexity.
The elections were made without major incidents despite the validity of the “state of exception” decreed by Noboa on the eve of the contest.
The head of the Electoral Observation Mission of the European Union (EU), the Spanish Eurodiput Gabriel Mato, highlighted the “absolute normality” of the day. The same authority of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Ecuador, Heraldo Muñoz, had also highlighted the “normality” and “tranquility” with which the elections passed.
Muñóz urged citizens to wait “patiently” to the results “until the last vote” and called not to trust polls on foot “that are nothing more than statistics.”
