The candidate for the presidency of Ecuador for the political movement Citizen Revolution, Luisa González, has reaped this Sunday The best electoral result for Correismo in a first round from the departure of Rafael Correa del Power In 2017.
With 81.22 % of the voted votes, González reached 44.07 % of valid votea significantly higher figure than the one that had achieved correism in the first laps of the three previous elections.
After the announcement of the National Electoral Council (CNE) that confirmed a second round between her and the current president, Daniel Noboa, González celebrated: “We have overcome the historical vote of the citizen revolution of the last ten years.” This result even exceeds 22.84 % that Correa obtained in its first presidential candidacy in 2006when he faced Álvaro Noboa, who achieved 26.83 % of the votes, and who Correa defeated in the second round.
However, three years later, Correa reached victory in a single round, obtaining 52 % of the votes, compared to 28.2 % of Lucio Gutiérrez.
In 2013, he repeated his triumph with 57.17 % of the votes, defeating Guillermo Lasso, who got 22.68 %. After Correa’s departure, Alianza País supported his former vice president, Lenín Moreno, who reached the second round with 39.35 % of the votes, while Lasso obtained 28.11 %.
In 2021, Andrés Aráuz, of Correism under the Union of Hope Movement (UNES), It was first in the first round with 32.72 %although he failed to win. The result of this Sunday also exceeded 33.61 % that González had achieved in the early elections of 2023, when he faced Daniel Noboa for the first time. The official CNE data this Sunday denied the projection of a survey to the urn’s mouth that anticipated a possible victory of Noboa in the first round with 50.12 %.
More than 13.7 million Ecuadorians were summoned to vote to choose their representatives for the 2025-2029 period, Among them the president and vice president, the 151 members of the National Assembly and the five representatives of the Andean Parliament. These elections were developed in the context of an “internal armed conflict” declared by Noboa in January 2024, in order to face the criminal gangs, which he described as “terrorist groups”, and that has involved the Armed Forces .
