When a quarter of the votes to tell, the leader and national democratic action candidate (DNA) has an advantage of approximately one million votes over the candidate of the citizen revolution, the party that has as leader the former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017).
Noboa is following the progress of scrutiny in his beach residence in the commune of Oón, located in the coast of Santa Elena province, where in the morning he voted accompanied by his family, while González is at the headquarters of the citizen revolution in Quito.
During the electoral campaign, Noboa anticipated that if he won, he would promote a Constituent Assembly to leave behind the current Constitution, approved in 2008 under the presidential mandate of Correa, with the aim of deepening its fight against organized crime and its reforms to liberalize the economy.
The polls were summoned this Sunday more than 13.7 million Ecuadorians to decide whether they re -elected Noboa for a complete mandate or, if on the contrary, they returned to correism the power of the hand of González, who would become the first woman in Ecuador’s history to win presidential elections.
In total, 83.7% of citizens enabled to vote, according to the definitive CNE report, attended.
The elections returned to develop under strong security measures, with a deployment of about 100,000 members of the security forces, between the almost 60 thousand police officers and the 40 thousand military destined to protect the electoral enclosures.
Ecuador has been found since 2024 under an “internal armed conflict” decreed by 3L President Noboa to deal with organized crime and counteract the escalation of violence that has placed the country at the head of Latin America in homicide index, a trend that has been intended at this beginning of 2025 with an average of an hour murder.