The head of Ecuador Daniel Novoa and the socialist candidate of the establishment Luisa González closed their respective campaigns before the highly polarized runoff elections on Sunday.
Sunday will make both candidates face a second -round election for the second consecutive time after the October 2023 instant elections – When Novoa, a 37 -year -old stranger, defeated González, career lawyer and protected from the former socialist president and fugitive Rafael Correa convict.
According to local pollsters, both candidates are “tied virtual” and the elections could go in any direction. Duration The first round of February 9 of the elections, which had a total of 16 candidates, Nemaa defeated González for a little for a 0.17 percent Voting difference.
Both candidates closed their respective campaigns with an event hero in the port city of Guayaquil, the main economic driver of Ecuador and a plagued Municipality.
Ash for him tooth Of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Ecuador will be under a mandatory period of electoral silence that will run until 5 in the afternoon of Sunday. No candidate or individual can transmit propaganda, surveys or no child information that can influence the vote of an electrician. Candidates and political organizations are also prohibited from celebrating events of any type of duration, the duration of the period of silence.
Ecuador’s 2025 presidential campaign has been reportedly described as a “very hard and very diva campaign, full of attacks, disqualifications and insults.” At the end of March, both candidates participated in a heated debate In which they exchanged personal attacks instead of answering directly to debate questions.
Surveys published last week suggested that both candidates are “technically linked.” CommunicatesAccording to reports, a voting agency authorized by the CNE, indicated that Neboa is scheduled to obtain 50.3 percent of the votes at 49.7 percent of González. Surveyman’s telicodata, on the other hand, He said González would get 50.2 percent of the votes and Neboa 49.8 percent.
Neboa of the National Party of Democratic Action (DNA), the youngest president of Ecuador, closed his campaign with a meeting in a local sports sand in the company of some of its ministers and legislators of DNA. He gave a speech of approximately six minutes in which he requested unity, hope and firmness against corruption.
“We observe about the dignity and justice of all Ecuadorians,” said Novoa. “This project is based on progress, justice, dignity and love for a country that we cannot lose, that we cannot give to the mafias.”
Neloa alluded to González and the revolution of the citizens of the Socialist Party of the establishment, and said: “This Sunday we will end this failed revolution.”
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“This Sunday we are going to put an end to drug trafficking. We are going to take away any possibility that mafias can govern this country. Because this country is governed by you, it is governed by citizens, it is governed by good people, people who want a better country,” said Noboa.
He proclaimed that, if he re -elected, his administration would end crime, crime and “all those miserable politicians who have kept us in the setback.”
“Ecuador is great, the Ecuadorian people are excellent, the young Ecuadorians are great and do not go backwards, walk forward. Today,” said Novoa.
Nemaa became the youngest president in Ecuador in October 2023 through a rapid election organized after his predecessor, conservative president Guillermo Lasso, invoked a dark constitutional clause of “mutually assured destruction” that dissolved the executive and legislative branches. Lasso, who decided not to run for re -election, explained at the time that in the constitutional clause in response to the leftist legislators who launched 14 different trial processes against him between 2021 and 2023, which impossible for him.
Althegh Nnovera described his external party DNA as “central-left” with the electoral authorities of the nation, the geopolitical titular president was aligned with President Donald Trump and the Nayib Buckele of El Salvador in the field or in the field or in the field security.
Novoa, who attended the inauguration of President Trump in January, with him last week At the Trump Mar-Alago Finca in Florida and requested US military support to combat drug trafficking in Ecuador.
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González, the socialist candidate of the establishment, closed his campaign in Guayaquil pronouncing a speech in a stage located near the city center. Originally, the citizens’ revolution intended to maintain a caravan of vehicles before speech, but it was reportedly He called for “security reasons.” González, who pronounced his speech in the midst of a security contingent, focused his words on the fight against violence against women and, in part, in defense of single mothers.
“I am going to tell you my case, there are many individual moths here. Being a single mother does not give them the right to invent a father for their children. And this week my chosen 11 -year -old boy, a dirty campaign.” González. “Not only for me, but for thousands of single children or mothers who deserve respect.”
The comments of the socialist candidate seemed to be a response to the former Blackwater CEO and founder of Unplugged Technologies Erik Prince, who reportedly He said this week that González had a son with former President Rafael Correa.
“Let’s Be Clear: In The Last Year and a Half, Violence, Poverty and Unemployment Have Tasks A Deep Toll On Women. Here, no Woman is silent in the face of violence. We demand respect. If I Say ,, You say, you say, you say, you say, you say, you say, you say, “and you, if elected, She was used operate a line or up to $ 45,000 for single mothers.
Christian K. Caruzo is a Venezuelan writer and documented life under socialism. You can follow it on Twitter Gentleman.
