President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa claimed on Tuesday that there were “many irregularities” in Sunday’s 2025 general elections, in which he narrowly defeated establishment socialist candidate Luisa González in the first round.
Ecuador held a general election on Sunday to choose the next president, vice president, and members of the National Assembly for the next four years.
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While the first round of the presidential election featured 16 candidates, the presidential race was primarily centered around current incumbent President Noboa and his outsider ADN Party and González, a socialist lawyer and protégée of former president and fugitive convicted felon Rafael Correa. González ran as the candidate for Correa’s establishment Citizen Revolution socialist party.
The most recent results published by Ecuador’s National Electoral Council (CNE) at press time indicate that Noboa obtained 44.18 percent of the votes against González’s 43.95 percent.
While exit polls published on Election Day appeared to indicate that Noboa was on track to receive enough votes to be elected in the first round, neither candidate obtained 50 percent of the vote, or at least 40 percent with a ten-point lead, automatically prompting a runoff election between Noboa and González scheduled for Sunday, April 13. In light of the narrow results, Noboa suspended a post-election campaign event that his party had scheduled in the capital city of Quito. […]
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