Ecuador’s presidential elections go to run between a conservative duty, a left -wing lawyer

• In April, Ecuador will select its next president in the April election between the conservative current Daniel Nobo, and the left -wing lawyer Luis González.
• The crime is the main issue for voters. Cocaine trade produced in neighboring Colombia and Peru contributed to the jump of the homicide rates, abductions and extortion.
• The Ecuadorian National Election Council announced that with the number of 92.1% of the Noboa voting leaflets, he received 44.31% of Voite, while González received 43.83%. Another 14 candidates in the race were far behind them.

In April, Ecuador will select its next president in the April election between the conservative current Daniel Nobo, and the left -wing lawyer Luis González.

None won the Sunday’s first round election, but both were far ahead of the other 14 candidates and each within a percentage of points of 44% of the vote, according to the results on Monday.

The election elections for April 13 will be a repetition of the Snap election for October 2023.

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Noboa and González are now fighting for a full four -year term, promising that voters will reduce the widespread criminal activity that has become their life four years ago.

Spike in violence over South American country It is attached to cocaine trade produced in neighboring Colombia and Peru. So many voters have become a victim of crime that their personal and collective losses are a decisive factor in deciding whether the third president can turn Ecuador in four years or whether Noboa has earned more time in power.

Noboa, a heir to a wealth built on a banana trade, and González, a protégé of the most influential President of Ecuador this century, were clear front runners in front of the election.

The information published by the National Ecuador’s National Ecuador has shown that with a number of counting ballots, Noboa has received 4.22 million votes, or 44.31%, while González received 4.17 million votes, or 43.83%. Another 14 candidates in the race were far behind them.

The vote is mandatory in Ecuador. Election authorities have reported that more than 83% of approximately 13.7 million voters are an acceptable voter.

Crime, gangs and extortion

Under Nobo’s guard, the killing rate fell from 46.18 to 100,000 people in 2023. At 38.76 per 100,000 people last year. However, it remains far more than 6.85 per 100,000 people in 2019, and others crimes, such as abduction and extortion, jumped abruptly, which is why people are afraid to leave their homes.

“For me, this president is catastrophic,” said Marta Barres, 35, who with her three teenage girls went to the ballot center. “Can things change in four years? No. He didn’t do anything.”

Barres, who has to pay $ 25 per month with a local gang to avoid harassment or worse, said she supports González because she believes she can Reduce crime on the entire plate and improve the economy.

Noboa defeated González in the election of the election in October 2023, and initiated the decision of then President Guillermo Lass to dissolve the national assembly and shorten her own term. Noboa and González, mentor of former President Rafael Corre, only served with short compounds as legislators before launching their presidential campaign that year.

To win on Sunday, it took a candidate 50% of the vote or at least 40% with a 10 -point lead over the closest challenger.

More than 100,000 police officers and army members are allocated throughout the country to protect the elections, including the ballots. At least 50 officers were accompanied by Nobo, his wife and their two -year -old son at the voting center in which the president threw a ballot in the small community of Olón on the Pacific Ocean coast.

Law limit and control standard

Noboa, 37, opened a company to organize events when he was 18, and then joined his father’s Nobo Corp., where he held managerial positions in shipping, logistics and commercial areas. His political career began in 2021, when he won a place in the National Assembly and presided over the Commission for Economic Development.

As a president in the last 15 months, some of his Mano Dura, or heavy, has entered the crime tactics under control within and outside the country to test the limit limit and management standards.

His brought into question involves the state of the inner armed conflict he declared in January 2024. To mobilize the army in places where crime was organized, as well as last year’s approval a Police come to the Mexican embassy In the capital, Quito, to arrest former vice president of Jorge Voice, a convicted criminal and fugitive who has lived there for months.

His main approach, however, also earns him voices.

“Noboa is the only person who has a hard time affecting organized crime,” a pensioner of German Rizzo, who has voted again to be elected president, said outside the polling station in Samborondón, an area of ​​a higher layer with closed communities that separated from the port city of Guayaquil by Rijeka.

‘Things will not change’

González, 47, held various Government affairs during Corre’s Presidency, who led Ecuador from 2007 to 2017 with socially conservative policy of free spending and became increasingly authoritarian in recent years as president. He was sentenced to prison in the absence of 2020 in a corruption scandal.

González was a legislature from 2021 to May 2023, when Lasso dissolved the National Assembly. She was unknown to most voters until Correana was chosen as her presidential candidate for Snap election.

Quit’s University of America, Professor Maria Cristina Bayas, said the result was a “triumph” for Correan on Sunday because the pre -election polls were projecting a broader difference between Nobo and González.

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Esteban Ron, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Legal Sciences at the Sek International University of Sek in Quitou, said Noboa would be forced to win his campaign at risk that he may already have reached his upper ceiling. Ron attributed the outcome to the problems that are with whom he is with whom she is with whom she has with whom she has faced the recording during his administration.

Waiting for her voice to vote at Guayaquil, the architecture student Keila Torres said she had not yet decided to vote for. None, she said, will not be able to lower the crime throughout Ecuador because of the deeply rooted corruption of the Government.

“If I could, I wouldn’t be here,” said Torres, who witnessed three robberies on public buses in the last four years and barely fled on December. “Things won’t change.”