Noboa reelected in Ecuador with 56.13 % of the votes!
Quito, Apr 13 (EFE).-
Incumbent President Daniel Noboa has been reelected in Ecuador with 56.13 percent of the votes, compared to 43.87 percent for Correa’s candidate Luisa Gonzalez, after 75.82 percent of the votes have been counted, according to official data.
The National Electoral Council called the race with a fourth of votes still to be counted, after the National Democratic Action party candidate won a lead of about 1 million votes over the Citizens’ Revolution candidate, whose party is led by former President Rafael Correa.
Noboa is following the progress of the vote count from his beachfront residence in the commune of Olon, in the coastal province of Santa Elena, where he voted Sunday morning with his family. Gonzalez is at the headquarters of the Citizens’ Revolution in Quito.
During the election campaign, Noboa announced that if he won, he would push for a constituent assembly to abandon the current Constitution, approved in 2008 under Correa’s presidency, with the goal of deepening his fight against organized crime and his reforms to liberalize the economy.
More than 13.7 million Ecuadorians were called to the polls Sunday to decide whether to re-elect Noboa for a full term or, instead, return Correa’s party to power under Gonzalez, who would become the first woman in Ecuadorian history to win a presidential election. A total of 83.7 percent of eligible voters turned out to vote, according to the final report from the National Electoral Council.
The elections were once again held under heavy security measures, with the deployment of nearly 100,000 members of the security forces, including nearly 60,000 police officers and 40,000 soldiers assigned to guard the polling stations.
Ecuador has been under an “internal armed conflict” since the beginning of 2024, decreed by President Noboa to combat organized crime and counter the escalating violence that has placed the country at the top of Latin America in homicide rates. This trend worsened at the beginning of 2025, with an average of one murder per hour. EFE
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