Ecuador’s presidential election goes to runoff after ‘statistical tie’ Daniel Noboa fails to achieve anticipated victory over leftist rival Luisa González, forcing them to repeat 2023’s election.
Ecuador’s conservative president, Daniel Noboa, will face the leftist former congresswoman Luisa González in an election runoff on 13 April after a better than expected first-round performance by the latter.
The heir to a banana fortune, Noboa, 37, became Ecuador’s youngest president in 2023 after unexpectedly winning a snap election to complete the term of former president Guillermo Lasso, who had dissolved congress and resigned to avoid impeachment.
Noboa also refused to comply with electoral rules requiring candidates to step down for the 30-day campaign period, which led González to tell the press , after casting her vote, that “Noboa has violated the law and the constitution.”.
The election once again highlighted the polarisation between Correísmo – named after former leftist president Rafael Correa, who governed from 2007 to 2017 and backs González’s candidacy – and the anti-Correísmo camp, in which Noboa is the leading figure.
