2023-08-21 04:10:55
quit. Luisa González and Daniel Noboa would go to the ballot for the presidency of Ecuador, according to official data released on Sunday by the National Electoral Council (CNE) with almost 20 percent of the votes counted.
Millions of Ecuadorians voted in presidential and legislative elections on Sunday after a campaign marred by bloodshed, amid voters’ hopes that the winner would lift the country out of the spiral of violence and economic troubles in which it finds itself.
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González, protégé of the former president Rafael Correaled the vote with 32.9 percent of the votes, followed by former legislator Noboa with 24.4 percent, Christian Zurita, who took the place of the assassinated Fernando Villavicencio, appears third with 16.38 percent of the preferences.
If there is a ballot, it would take place on October 15.
González’s supporters, gathered in southern Quito, where the candidate was expected to speak later, said they wanted a return to Correa’s social programs and better job opportunities.
“I feel as a woman that she is going to fight for the town,” said Fany Tarqui, 52, who brought her two daughters and her dog to the demonstration. “We want peace of mind and sources of work.”
Jan Topic, who says he was a member of the French Foreign Legion, came in fourth with him with 14.62 percent of the vote.
González and Noboa have joined their competitors in pledging to fight a sharp rise in crime, which the current government blames on drug gangs, and improve the struggling economy, whose problems have led to rising unemployment and migration. .
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Security has been at the center of the race since the murder of anti-corruption journalist and former legislator Fernando Villavicencio, who was gunned down as he was leaving a campaign rally in Quito earlier this month.
Other candidates have reported attacks against them, although in several cases police have said the violence was not directed at the applicants. Voters in Quito and Guayaquil said that security was their main demand for the new president.
“The first thing is security and then the economy and employment. Without security, there is no investment, there are no companies, there are no jobs,” said public employee Patricia Simbaña, who voted at a Quito school, where Zurita cast her ballot amid an avalanche of journalists and heavily armed soldiers.
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