The ultracorreísta Luisa Gonzalez and the moderate outsider Daniel Noboa, the great surprise of the Ecuadorian electoral night, will contest the second round of October, surpassing 80% of the scrutiny. The candidate of the Citizen Revolution maintains 33.2% of the support, compared to 24% of the moderate Noboa, son of Álvaro Noboa, a well-known banana businessman who has unsuccessfully contested five presidential elections.
“We are partying, we are making history,” González stressed in her first statements despite the little enthusiasm that surrounded her. The ex-president’s standard-bearer Rafael Correa He demanded the repetition of the elections in Europe and abroad, after his political boss shouted fraud through social networks.
Hours before, the National Electoral Council (CNE) acknowledged that the platform of telematic voting had suffered cyber attacks that affected the fluidity to access voting abroad, although the consigned votes were not violated. The attacks came from China, Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia.
In this way, Correísmo confirms its usual hard vote, around a third of the voters, which is not enough for it to win in the first round, as Correa, its leader, had planned. sentenced to eight years in prison for corruptionwho remains on the run from Ecuadorian justice.
Noboa, who at 35 represents a generational change in a mostly young population, he has staged one of the greatest comebacks in living memory. In just 10 days, it has gone from being located in the penultimate place of the eight candidacies, with 2% in the polls, to second place with the possibility of winning in the second round, as happened with Guillermo Lasso in 2021.