President Daniel Noboa is declared winner of the elections in Ecuador with a wide advantage and the opponent Luisa González denounces «the greatest fraud that Ecuadorians have seen»

President Daniel Noboa won the presidential elections this Sunday in Ecuador, although the opponent Luisa González ignored the results and spoke of the «greater fraud that Ecuadorians have seen.»

According to the results of the National Electoral Council (CNE), with 90% of the recorded minutes, Noboa obtained almost 56% of the votes compared to 44% of González.

«With more than 90% of the minutes, an irreversible tendency is marked in the results. The electoral authority considers that the winning binomial is DNA, made up of Daniel Noboa and Maria Jose Pinto, ”said Diana Atamaint, president of the CNE.

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«Today Ecuador has voted for a young president who has worked to improve the lives of Ecuadorians. Today is a historical day, a historical victory of more than ten points, more than one million votes, which leaves no doubt who is the winner, ”said Noboa to celebrate the victory.

However, González ignored the results.

«Citizen Revolution has always recognized a defeat when statistics have demonstrated. Today we do not recognize the results presented by the CNE, ”González said before his followers, who during the campaign denounced that Noboa took advantage of his position as president.

«We are going to ask for the reconteo and that the polls are opened,» added the opponent, who said that the country is before the «major and most grotesque fraud that we have witnessed Ecuadorians.»

The wide advantage achieved by Noboa occurs in elections that, according to the surveys, were prevented adjusted.

«Everyone knows that these results are impossible,» the former president of Ecuador Rafael Correa, an ally of González, denounced in his account.

Noboa, 37 -year -old businessman and politician assigned to the National Democratic Action Party (DNA), and González, the candidate of Citizen Revolution, founded by former President Correa, had been the most voted in the first round in February.

The president of Ecuador had then added 44.3% of the votes compared to 43.8% of González, which made tight results presage this Sunday.

Reissue of 2023

These elections were a reissue of the second round of the 2023 presidentials, exceptionally held to complete Guillermo Lasso’s unfinished mandate, who dissolved Parliament in the middle of a political scandal.

18 months Noboa became the youngest president in the country’s history by defeating González for a tight 51.8% compared to 48.1%.

This Sunday Noboa’s advantage was much greater.

As in 2023, the roof of organized crime and drug trafficking in Ecuador, as well as the economic and energy crisis that the country was going through in recent times, were very present in the minds of voters this Sunday.

Security is the biggest concern of 4 out of 10 Ecuadorians, according to surveys, a figure similar to 2023.

Noboa focused his previous campaign on the hard -hand promise against crime in full advancement of criminal gangs and street violence.

The murder of the candidate Fernando Villavicencio had shocked the country weeks before those elections and the generalized feeling of insecurity favored, according to experts, the then DNA applicant.

After 18 months, the Noboa government security results offer a questionable balance.

Although he achieved certain initial advances, the Phoenix Plan, which allowed the intervention of the armed forces in prisons and streets, did not achieve the transformation that many expected, although now he will have four years to present more convincing results and will do so with a greater representation of his party in the National Assembly, the Legislative Power.

The average of daily murders dropped from 22 in 2023 to 19 in 2024. However, violence rebounded forcefully at the beginning of this year: January and February accumulated 1,529 violent deaths, an average of 26 per day.

The fight against the crime of Noboa also generated complaints of human rights abuse.

The most serious case was that of the so -called «4 of Guayaquil», four minors arrested by military after playing a football match in December 2024, whose bodies appeared calcined with signs of torture.

Noboa’s management

Coming from an influential family of entrepreneurs, Noboa had debuted in politics as an assemblyman just two years earlier, and his advance to the second round was then considered a surprise.

However, with a fresh image and a security -centered speech, he managed to capitalize on the anticorreist vote and project himself as a renewal figure that finally won the support of the electorate.

The situation was very different in this second round: Noboa reached the ballot with the challenge of defending his management after almost 18 months in power.

The initial moments of his government were marked by high popularity attributed to their response to the security crisis, which was declining as the results did not arrive.

In this context, Noboa tried to reposition himself, with a campaign focused on strengthening his strong leader profile against the possibility of the back of the left to Ecuador’s policy and highlighted his proximity to the United States and with the current president of that country, Donald Trump.

This Sunday’s result seems to endorse what was done in those months and will now be four years ahead to advance his agenda.

«Despite being a president with very poor results and a character of little charisma, he maintains important support thanks to his campaign team and the use of the state apparatus,» BBC world told the second round the political scientist Andrés Chiriboga.

Chiriboga also underlined the support that Noboa has achieved between key sectors of power: «It has the support of the high controls of the public force, of the judicial apparatus, and has cultivated a very close relationship with the United States.»

The Ecuadorian president traveled at the end of March to the United States to meet with President Trump in his Mar-A-Lago residence in Florida. This meeting was performed as support for Noboa.

«Ecuador is changing, he chose a different path: that our children live better than us. Ecuador wants to be different, not return to the past, continue forward on that path of peace and employment, ”he said this Sunday

Luisa González’s complaint

Luisa González, on the other hand, was two years ago an exasambleist directly associated with former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017)-and therefore to the Ecuadorian and Latin American ideological left-with hardly any experience in national campaigns.

His candidacy was presented as the direct continuity of the citizen revolution project, with a claiming discourse of the legacy of correismo that failed to capture enough support outside its traditional electorate.

Citizen Revolution «made an interesting commitment to give the candidate more independence. The figure of President Correa is present but in a more subtle way, ”said political scientist Andrés Chiriboga.

The objective of this was to break the so -called «roof» of Correism, a political option that has staunch supporters but has trouble gaining votes of centrist and undecided, crucial to overcome 50% in this second electoral round.

According to the results of this Sunday, it seems that «anticorreism» was again a great political force that played against González already favor Noboa.

And that despite the fact that González made an ideological turn to seduce more conservative or moderate sectors that traditionally distrust the correism.

González showed a more combative attitude, marking distances with Noboa and projecting a firmness image to capitalize on the discontent of the citizenship towards the current government, with a speech focused on economic improvement.

Nor could he take advantage of supporting the alliance signed in March with the indigenous movement Pachakutik and the influential indigenous leader Leonidas Iza, a sector until recently faced with Correism for its extractivist policies but also opposes Noboa.

After knowing the results, González denounced that there was fraud, but showed no evidence that endorses it.