The president of Ecuador Daniel Nnovera was re -elected for a period of four years in a second round election on Sunday, defeating the socialist candidate of the Luisa González establishment with an advantage of more than 11 points.
Sunday choice, which declared local polls and media Too close to call him in the days before him, since the candidates were “tied virtual” after an extremely close first round, he concluded with the re -election of Novoa.
The 37-year-old stranger and the youngest president in Ecuador, who begins, who campaigned as a conscious center-left center of the weather and since then has rendered his efforts against organized crime that is what local media are local media. information As the greatest landslide from Ecuador’s return to democracy in 1979. Noboa was an unknown relative ideological when he first run for president, winning in a special election full of violence in which the favorite Fernando Villavicen in 2023.
Neboa has prioritized the fight against criminal gangs and, in the process, improved relations with the United States. He attended the second inauguration of President Donald Trump and visited the White House at the end of March, according to the reports, asking Trump for help to combat the crime.
Sunday also marked the second Time a president was re -elected in Ecuador since the South American nation returned to democracy after the former socialist and fugitive president convicts the criminal Rafael Correa emptied the position in 2017.
Luisa González, who ran as a candidate for the Party of the Socialist Revolution of the Correa establishment, denounced the results “the most grotesque electoral fraud of the Republic” and announced that he does not recognize his defeat and will.
The most recent results published by the National Electoral Council of Ecuador (CNE) at the time of publication indicate That with approximately 97 percent of the votes they told Notoa obtaining 55.65 percent of the votes against 44.35 percent of González. Of the nations of about 13.3 million registered voters, CNE explained that approximately 11.1 million participated in the second round elections on Sunday.
“Democracy is strengthened when the will of the people is respected. Today, that will has been clearly expressed and, above all, respected,” CNE said in a statement published through social networks.
“This victory has been historical, a victory of more than 10 points,” Novoa saying To his followers and reporters shortly after CNE announced the results. “This victory has been historical, there is no doubt who the winner is.”
“I want to thank my mother special and my wife for making an unimaginable effort. My mother with a sick husband and my wife with three young children,” he added.
The titular president sure Its voters that Ecuador has already chosen a different path “and that path will be that our children live better than us, so that future generations have a more just, more dignified and more.
Before retiring to celebrate with his friends and family, Neboa announced that he will return to the capital city of Quito on Monday to continue with the agenda of his administration and announced that his new term, which begins on May 24, will see changes in his cabinet.
Luisa González, the candidate for the leftist establishment and protected Rafael Correa, also addressed her followers shortly after CNE announced Nevoa’s victory. González sure That Neith or the Citizen Revolution Party recognizes the results of Sunday and that they will demand a count of votes and that the polls are opened.
González justified his refusal to recognize his defeat on the grounds that he refuses “to believe that there are people who prefer violence and lies” while his followers sang “fraud.”
“I denounce before my people, before the media, and before the world, that Ecuador is living a dictated, and we face the most grotesque electoral fraud in the Republic of Ecuador,” González saying.
According to the reports, González said that Novoa could have used the status of exception That Quito and seven other provinces are under the fight against violent crime of drug gangs to “probably … guarantee the most grotesque electoral fraud.” At the time of publication, González has not publicly presented evidence to corroborate his claims.
According to the reports, the socialist candidate referred to surveys carried out before the exit and departure surveys of Sunday that allegedly projected it as the winner as justification for his questioning of the results and emphasized that “no study showed a difference as the CNE demonstrates.”
Asked by journalists from the comments about González’s refusal to recognize the results and demand a count, Nebnoa said that “you are not to answer anything there” and find the “shameful” response.
“It is shameful that with 11, 12 points of difference you try in some way to question the will of Ecuadorians. I think that Ecuadorians have already made their decision, now we have to work from tomorrow,” said Novoa.
The election of escortía on Sunday marked the third time that Novoa defeated González in the surveys, for the first time the duration of the October 2023 Snap election and then in the first round of the presidential elections FebruaryAn electoral event that featured 16 candidates and in which Novoa defeated González for little for a vote difference of 0.17 percent.
Christian K. Caruzo is a Venezuelan writer and documented life under socialism. You can follow it on Twitter Gentleman.
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