No candidate received enough support to be declared the winner.
Presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez, of the Citizen’s Revolution Political Movement, will go ahead to the run-off
With more than 85% of the votes counted by late on Sunday, results from the National Electoral Council placed leftist Luisa Gonzalez in the lead, with about 33% of support.She had been the frontrunner heading into the contest, but the big election day surprise came from former legislator Daniel Noboa, a banana tycoon’s son who received about 24% of the vote, even though he did not place above fifth place in the polls.
His name was not on the ballot, but he replaced Fernando Villavicencio, whose killing this month as he left a campaign rally in Quito, the capital, laid bare people’s fears over unprecedented violence in a country they considered peaceful up until three years ago. The former president remains influential even though in 2020 he was found guilty of corruption and sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison. He has been living in his wife’s native Belgium since 2017.
She added that he represents an electorate looking for a new political presence with a good academic background.
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