2023-10-15 14:00:16
Wearing a bulletproof vest and surrounded by a strong security ring, the correismo candidate, Luisa Gonzalez voted this Sunday morning at the Carlos Pomerio Zambrano School, in the small and beautiful town of Canuto, in Manabí, eastern Ecuador. Lawyer González, who obtained 33.30% of the votes in the first round, arrived at the scene accompanied by several leaders of the “Citizen Revolution”, and expressed confidence in reaching the presidency, although it should be noted that the polls They were spread until the last days, they were even or with a slight advantage for the opponent Daniel Noboa.
Surrounded by the press and in the middle of a strong operation, González limited herself to pointing out that “we have all the faith, strength and hope that Ecuador is going to take a turn towards dignity and towards a homeland of law.”
Ballotage in Ecuador, between Correa’s candidate and an outsider
The candidate who was nominated by former president Rafael Correa also called to “vote with memory”, and said that she would later travel to Puerto Viejo to accompany the prefect of Manabí, Andrés Arauz, to vote. Then both will make a stopover in Guayaquil to, close to closing time, arrive in Quito.
Minutes after casting his vote, González uploaded the moment of the vote to his official Twitter account:
short presidency
Between the Correísta lawyer and the businessman Noboa, they will have to complete the remaining two years of Guillermo Lasso’s mandate, until 2025, given that these elections were anticipated when Lasso dissolved the congress in one of the crises that his government was facing, using that resource that Constitution gives to the leaders.
Lasso appealed to what is known as “crossed death”, that is, ending the management of the legislators who attacked him and his own in power, a situation that was legal, but had no precedent in that country. This appeal dissolved the National Assembly which, at that time, was proposing the dismissal of Lasso through a political trial.
Ecuador: presidential candidate Daniel Noboa Ecuador made bonds fall with his statements
The first round held on August 20 had everything. The murder of Fernando Villavicencio in the middle of a public street shocked the country, In addition, a financial situation similar to the pandemic era and the continuous growth of the homicide rate added more anxiety to the situation of general instability. . Violent deaths quadrupled, going from around 6 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2020 to more than 25 this year.
Networks as a campaign springboard
In addition to the typical media tools and pamphlets, this campaign focused on marketing and entertainment distanced itself from the aggressiveness of Twitter to focus on the dynamism of Tiktok.
While Noboa, son of a business magnate, was widely accepted due to the success of making life-size posters printed with his photograph go viral, González appeared as the favorite to win in the first round and, failing to achieve this, his candidacy began to be endangered by the Noboa advances, and the suspense remains until this afternoon’s results.
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