The electoral turnaround in Ecuador has a name: Daniel Noboa. The moderate candidate, son of one of the richest businessmen in the country, confirmed the meteoric rise announced by some last-minute polls and slipped through the front door ahead of the second round of early elections, to be held in mid-October .
“They will have the opportunity to vote for correísmo and for the option that is not correísmo, which is Daniel Noboa. There is a very important alliance, which is what we have been talking about the most at this time, which is the alliance with the people.” certified Noboa, who despite having 900,000 votes less than his rival part in equal opportunities, even with a small advantage, in a contest that promises to be closed, despite the fact that the winner of the first round was Luisa Gonzalezcandidate of the Citizen Revolution.
Scrutinized almost 94% of the minutes, González has 33.38% of the supportin front of 23.61% of the standard bearer of the National Democratic Action (ADN) alliance. In this way, the Citizen Revolution of the fugitive Rafael Correa confirms his hard vote, established in a third of the voters, as happened two years ago, which could not prevent the comeback of the current president, Guillermo Lasso.
“Hope for better days prevailed over hatred,” González cried. The duel is already served: the first woman to be president in Ecuador against whom would break all the records of youth. Noboa has turned 35, compared to Correa’s 43 when he came to power. In those 2006 elections, the ex-president precisely defeated Noboa’s father, so the current run-off becomes a kind of reissue of those elections.
“Citizens were looking for a new face and Noboa enjoys being new while belonging to a well-known family. He is almost an outsider. The two most important dimensions are going to be not only the polarizing figure of Correa, but also the security issue,” the political scientist told EL MUNDO John Polga-Hecimovich.