The right holder has a four -year term to implement the promises to repress crime and improve the economy.
Daniel Noboa’s right -wing president, Daniel Noboa was re -elected during a runoff in the second round.
The National Electoral Council said late Sunday Sunday that the holder, who had promised to stimulate the trigger economy and continue the repression of the cartel’s violence, had won by a wide margin.
With more than 90% of the counted voting bulletins, the 37 -year -old Noboa would have taken 55.8% of the vote. This gave him a 2 -point lead on the left opponent Luisa Gonzalez.
However, his rival, whose support polls had suggested was close to that of the holder, demanded a recount, saying that the vote was fraudulent.
Noboa, who was elected to the Snap elections in 2023, now has a complete four -year mandate in which to continue his division “Mano Dura” (difficult) of violence linked to cocaine traffic produced in neighboring Colombia and Peru. The crime of smuggling and associated crime has been unleashed from the equator since 2021.
“The Ecuadorians have spoken. Since tomorrow morning, we will go to work,” Noboa told supporters during a brief speech in his hometown of Olon. He also criticized the allegations of fraud of his opponent.
Gonzalez, who may have been penalized in the polls for his close ties with the former populist president of Brand Rafael Correa, said to sing the supporters that the result was “the electoral fraud the worst and the most grotesque in the history of the equator”.
The results surprised a lot after the first round in February, in which Noboa finished only 16,746 votes ahead of Gonzalez. The latter candidate had the support of Leonidas Iza, a powerful native chief who obtained more than half a million votes in the first round.
But voters were strongly concerned about the point of drug -related violence. The formerly peaceful nation has an average murder every hour at the beginning of the year, while the cartels competed for the control of the cocaine routes which cross the ports of the equator.
The crawling blood effusions have frightened investors and tourists, fueling economic discomfort and swelling the ranks of the poor of the equator to 28% of the population.
Noboa, heir to a family fortune built on the banana trade, had put his political fortune on difficult security policies since his coming to power 16 months ago, in deployment of soldiers in the streets, by capturing drug lords and inviting the United States to send special forces.
