US EditionWhat to know about Ecuador's presidential runoff election
- Ecuadorians will decide on President Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer Luisa Gonz�lez in a presidential runoff election on April 13 amid high crime rates and political polarization.
- Noboa received 44.17% of the vote in the first round, while Gonz�lez garnered 44%.
- Both candidates promise to implement strong crime-fighting policies and improve job opportunities, with Noboa aiming to create one million jobs and Gonz�lez targeting two million jobs.
- As of last year, only 33.7% of working-aged Ecuadorians were formally employed, according to the Institute of Statistics and Census.
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What to Know About Ecuador’s Presidential Election
Ecuador holds a runoff presidential election on Sunday, and the race is in a dead heat as voters decide which candidate can better address the violence that drug trafficking has unleashed on the country. Since 2023, Ecuador has been shaken by the assassination of a presidential candidate, the prison killings of six men accused of murdering him and a security crackdown after several prison riots and the on-air siege of a TV station. Here is what …
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Ecuador votes in razor-close presidential runoff
Ecuadorans vote Sunday in a too-close-to-call presidential election pitting the incumbent, security hawk Daniel Noboa, against a charismatic leftist challenger.
Ecuador: President Daniel Noboa plays re-election, rival Luisa Gonzalez hopes revenge
Ecuadorians elect their president this Sunday, April 13th. The election is expected to be very close in Ecuador, in an increasingly polarized society and a country undermined by the violence of criminal groups linked to drug trafficking, corruption and economic difficulties.
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elDiarioAREcuador elects president in a tight second round with Noboa dotted by reports of drug trafficking and embezzlement
A divided Ecuador chooses this Sunday between Luisa González (Citizen Revolution, the party of former president Rafael Correa) and Daniel Noboa (Nationalist Democratic Action), supported in campaign by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, with the lack of security as one of the main concerns of the electorateDiego Borja, candidate for vice president of Ecuador: “It is indispensable that the left has international projection” Ecuadorians will have to choose on Sun…
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