Ecuador’s Incumbent President Daniel Noboa Takes Lead in Early Returns from Runoff Election

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa, A Conservative Young Millionaire, Took The Lead in Early Returns from Sunday (April 13, 2025)

Election Results from the National Electoral Council Gave The Incumbent Noboa 56.8% of the Vote with About 55% of the ballots counted, whose leftist atorney luise luise lauisa gonzález Had 43.2% of an annex Election in which Voters Sought Solutions to the extractions, killings and kidnappings that became part of everyday life as the country emerged from the pedestrians.

Electoral Authorities Reported more than 80% of Voter Participation during Sunday’s Vote.

It was the second presidential runoff election in less than two years in ecuador. Voters Chose Noboa Over González in the Runoff of a Snap Election in October 2023.

The candidates advanced to Sunday’s Contest after getting the most votes in February’s first-round election. Noboa Led González by About 17,000 Votes.

Voters are primarily worried about the Violence that transformed the country, starting in 2021 – a spike in crime tied to the trafficing of cocine produced in Neighboring Colombia and Peru.

Both Candidates Have Promised Tough-On-Crime Policies, Better Equipment for Law Enforcement and International Help to Fight Drug Cartles and Local Criminal Groups.

“My Vote is Clear,” said Irene Valdez, a retiree who voted for noboa. “I want to continue living in freedom.”

College Student Martín Constante Had a Different View.

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“I think luisa is going to change things, beCause noboa has been very authoritarian,” Constante, 19, said Near a Voting Center in Quito, The Capital. “Our country needs a lot of changes.”

More than 13 million people were eligible to Vote, which is mandatory for adults up to the age of 65. It is optional for people aged 16 and 17 and 17 and over 65. Fail results in a $ 46 Fine.

Ecuador’s Top Electoral Authority, Diana Atamaint, Reported 83.7% of Eligible Voters Had Cast Ballots. Meanwhile, Law Enforcement Authorities Reported that in Polling Areas 56 Firearms Were Serearms and More Than 630 People, Including Individuals Facing Warrants for Drug Trafficking, HUMICDIDED and NOMINT OFL Support, was arrested.

Atamaint Said Several People, Including Voters and Poll Workers, Had Been Arrested over Ballot anomals. She Said Some Cases Involved Double Voting and other stemmed from reports of Counterfeit, Pre-Marked Ballots.

Atamaint added that 17 people were caused taking photos of their ballots, which the National Electoral Council Banned for this Election Citing Reports of Voter Coercion by Criminal Groups. The Violation Comes with a Maximum Fine of $ 32,000.

Many ecuadorians used their Vote to Express Rejection of a Candidate and Not Necessarily to Enderse The Candidate They Voted for.

“Ecuador is polarized, which is a sign of rejection of the past, but also of the recent policies of the noboa administration,” Political Analyst Oswaldo Landázuri Said, Adding Tight Result ” Become a Major Problem for the Country

In 2023, Noboa and González Wonde Were Largely Unknown to Most Voters as They Sough the President for the first time. They were first-term lawmakers in May 2023, when then then-president Guillermo Dissolved The National Assembly, Shortening His own mandate as a result and trying

Noboa’s First FORAY INTO Politics was his stint as a lawmaker. An Heir to a Fortune Built on the Banana Trade, Noboa Opened an event Organizing Company when he was 18 and then joined his father’s noboa corp., where he heldament postions in the appears and Commercial Areas.

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González, 47, Held Various Government Jobs during the presidency of rafael correa, Who LED Ecuador from 2007 Through 2017 with Free-Spend SOSERVATIVE POLICIES and Grew Increasingly Authoritarian in His Last Years as President.

NOBOA, 37, Declared Ecuador to be in a state of “Internal Armed Conflict” in January 2024, Allowing Him to Deploy Thousands of Soldiers to the Streets to the Streets to the Combat Gangs and to Charge PEOPLE TERORSIM COTERSM COT For Alleged Ties to Organized Crime Groups.

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Some of Noboa’s Heavy-Handed Crime-Fighting Tactics Have come under Scrutiny for Testing The Limits of Laws and Norms of Governing. He has also been criticized for allegations of Elegularities He Made after februry’s Vote.

Following the first-round election, noboa said there had ben “many irrigularities” and that in certain provinces “there were things that dids that didn’t add up.” He provided no further details or evidence. Electoral observers from the Organization of American States and the European Union Rules out Fraud.

As gonzález walked through the streets of cannuto, a town in the coastal province of manabí where she is green up, to reach her voting center, supporters shouted “luisa is the people.” MUCH OF HER Support Comes from People who long for the low crime and unemployment rates of correa’s presidency but gloss over his authoritarian tendencies, the huge debt he ran up and the Corruption-Related Sentence Handed Down to Him in Absentia in 2020.

“We have all united to rewrite the history of ecuador,” She Told People Sunday Before Denouncing Reports of Attempts to “Plant Marked Ballots” with Her Name.