Luisa Gonzalezthe political figurehead of Rafael Correawill contest the second round of the elections in Ecuador after getting 33% of the votes.
Daniel Noboa, The son of the businessman to whom long ago it was attributed –with exaggeration– possessing a fortune capable of repaying the country’s public debt, will be his adversary by achieving 24% support at the polls.
He October 15th one of the two will pick up the baton to finish the mandate, of less than two years, which William Lasso has left unfinished.
Spilled blood and life Fernando Villavicencio did not serve to improve the results of Christian Zurita (16%), his replacement who was in third position. The murdered journalist was not a favorite of hers before her death and her colleague has not been a favorite after her death either.
The result leaves open the possibility that Rafael Correathe fugitive from justice who shares refuge in Belgium with puigdemontI can return to the country.
to the lawyer Luisa Gonzalez His voice does not tremble nor is he ashamed to admit that if he arrives at the Palace of Carondelet will pardon the corrupt with final sentence.
But to the people of Ecuador, with the ballot in hand, it seems that this option does not convince them. There are more who voted against him than those who did so,
Correísmo has lost by winning, despite having as a talisman –or jinx– Pablo Iglesias by his side in Quito. The objective of a definitive victory, -by absolute majority or with 40% of the votes and 10 points of advantage-, forces González (Citizen Revolution Movement) to overcome a second filter in the run-off and the forecasts do not look good.
The dozen or so candidates in front of the Correa’s former Secretary of State They had one thing in common despite their notable differences: they were all anti-correistas and all called for a strong hand against violence and drug trafficking.
The sum of this opposition should predictably anticipate the success of Daniel Noboasurprise and candidate of the Acción Democrática Nacional alliance (dna), which would achieve, at 35 yearswhich his father could not in 2006. That year alvaro noboawho had won the first round, lost to a revolutionary Correa.
Never before in the history of Ecuador had elections been held in a context of violence as brutal as the current one.
Drug trafficking has infiltrated the country at breakneck speed and the shadow of Rafael Correa, the former president who governed between 2007 and 2017, does not seem to be totally oblivious to this phenomenon that is falling from Mexico and Colombia to Patagonia. At least, that’s how Ecuadorians seem to appreciate it.
Noboa, businessman and outsider of politics, has become the favorite, but the field is not clear. His lineage raises blisters in a society that fails to take off from poverty and inequality.
Jan Topicthe former legionnaire known as the Bukele of Ecuadorand hope of the polls for a while, settled in fourth place on Sunday followed by Otto Sonnenholznerformer vice president of Lenin Moreno.
The sixth position was occupied by Yaku Perez the indigenist of Pachakutik who faced in the 2021 elections to William Lassothe liberal who carried out a surprising political pirouette on May 17.
Before the National Assembly (Congress) struck him down in a motion of no confidence, the still President, resorted to the constitutional figure of the death cross which, ultimately, consists of anticipating elections and shielding oneself to govern by decree until it is held. The deadline is October 15.
