2023-10-16 07:40:08
Daniel Noboa, candidate of the National Democratic Action alliance (ADN), after exercising his right to vote on Sunday (10/15/2023).Image: Martín Mejía/AP/Picture AllianceCorreista candidate Luisa González won her defeat and congratulated her rival, who becomes the youngest president in the country’s history. Billionaire businessman Daniel Noboa won Ecuador’s presidential runoff on Sunday (10/15/2023) and at 35 years old He became the youngest elected president in the history of the country, mired in drug trafficking violence.
“With more than 90% of the acts valid at the national level (…) data that as the National Electoral Council we consider irreversible, Ecuador virtually has Daniel Noboa as president,” declared the head of the electoral authority, Diana Atamaint.
With 90.23% of the votes counted, Noboa reached 52.29% of votes and González 47.71%, with a trend that a criterion of the National Electoral Council (CNE) is “irreversible.”
The candidate Luisa González, co-religionist of former leftist president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), received the electoral defeat and congratulated Noboa.
“Our deepest congratulations because he won in democracy,” said González in a speech given in a hotel in Quito together with his colleagues from the Citizen Revolution movement, led by Correa.
The voting centers closed at 5:00 p.m. local time after a 10-hour electoral day that passed normally and without serious incidents, with a participation of 82.33% according to the CNE and the observation mission of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Noboa was nominated by the National Democratic Action alliance (ADN), created to support his presidential candidacy.
The young tycoon announced late at night that he is closing a chapter as a candidate and that tomorrow he will start working for a “new Ecuador.”
“From tomorrow hope begins to work, from tomorrow Daniel Noboa, the new president of the Republic, begins to work,” he said after learning the results of the runoff.
He spoke his first words as president-elect from the patio of his house in the Olón commune, in the coastal province of Santa Elena, where he set up a small stage with tents due to the light rain that fell since the morning and where he was next to his Wife, Lavinia Valbonesi.
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