Ecuador votes to elect new president
1 year, 2 months ago

Ecuador votes to elect new president

Al Jazeera  

Luisa Gonzalez and Daniel Noboa are in a tight race as Ecuador’s economy remains the biggest concern for voters. Business scion Daniel Noboa, 35, has led recent polling, but at least two surveys placed him and Luisa González, a protege of former President Rafael Correa, within the margin of error. González has said she would bring back the popular social spending that characterised Correa’s decade in power, pledging free medicine, increased worker protections and direct aid to those in need. “The people want zero impunity, the people want progress, the people want jobs and young people want hope,” Noboa said after casting his ballot in Santa Elena. “So while the first reaction is positive because he’s a pro-business candidate, pro-business and pro-markets can mean two different things.” González has said Correa would be her top economic adviser, while both candidates have said they would balance compliance with the terms of Ecuador’s foreign debt and the needs of the population.

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Ecuadorians vote overwhelmingly in referendum to approve toughening fight against gangs
8 months ago

Ecuadorians vote overwhelmingly in referendum to approve toughening fight against gangs

The Hindu  

Ecuador’s fledgling president got a resounding victory Sunday, April 21, 2024, in a referendum that he touted as a way to crack down on criminal gangs behind a spiraling wave of violence. An official quick count showed that Ecuadorians overwhelmingly voted “yes” to all nine questions focused on tightening security measures, rejecting only two more controversial economic proposals. Among the …

Ecuadorians vote overwhelmingly in referendum to approve toughening fight against gangs
8 months ago

Ecuadorians vote overwhelmingly in referendum to approve toughening fight against gangs

Associated Press  

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s fledgling president got a resounding victory Sunday in a referendum that he touted as a way to crack down on criminal gangs behind a spiraling wave of violence. Among the measures approved are President Noboa’s call to deploy the army in the fight against the gangs, to loosen obstacles for extraditing accused criminals and to lengthen …

Daniel Noboa is sworn in as Ecuador’s president, inheriting the leadership of a country on edge
1 year, 1 month ago

Daniel Noboa is sworn in as Ecuador’s president, inheriting the leadership of a country on edge

Associated Press  

QUITO, Ecuador — Daniel Noboa, an inexperienced politician and heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, was sworn in Thursday as Ecuador’s president, a role that citizens are demanding he uses to restore the public safety that drug cartels and other criminal organizations robbed them of at the decade’s start. He is inheriting a weakened economy and serious …

Business heir Daniel Noboa sworn in as Ecuador president
1 year, 1 month ago

Business heir Daniel Noboa sworn in as Ecuador president

Al Jazeera  

The banana empire heir has promised to reduce violence and create jobs in the country gripped by a bloody drug war. Daniel Noboa has been sworn in as Ecuador’s new president, promising to reduce violence and create jobs in the country gripped by a bloody drug war. He was sworn in on Thursday at a ceremony attended by Colombian President …

He is Ecuador’s youngest president-elect. What lies ahead for Daniel Noboa?
1 year, 2 months ago

He is Ecuador’s youngest president-elect. What lies ahead for Daniel Noboa?

Al Jazeera  

Noboa, heir to a banana industry fortune, faces rising crime with little political backing and an abbreviated term in office. Faced with an abbreviated 18-month term in office, Noboa has little time — and little political backing — with which to address some of Ecuador’s most pressing problems. “Other than that, I don’t think he can do much more in …

Ecuador’s youngest elected president faces a practically impossible task
1 year, 2 months ago

Ecuador’s youngest elected president faces a practically impossible task

Associated Press  

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador ‘s youngest elected president on Monday faced the practically impossible task of reducing a terrifying, drug-driven crime wave within a greatly shortened 1 1/2 years in office. Presidential candidate Daniel Noboa, of the National Democratic Action Alliance political party, speaks in Olon, Ecuador, after results show him ahead in a snap presidential runoff on Sunday, Oct. …

Banana fortune heir Daniel Noboa claims victory in Ecuador election
1 year, 2 months ago

Banana fortune heir Daniel Noboa claims victory in Ecuador election

Al Jazeera  

Noboa defeated socialist rival Luisa Gonzalez just over two months after a prominent presidential candidate was assassinated. Daniel Noboa, heir to a banana empire, will be Ecuador’s next president after defeating socialist Luisa Gonzalez, an ally of exiled former President Rafael Correa. “From tomorrow, Daniel Noboa starts work as your new president,” the 35-year-old Noboa told supporters during brief remarks …

Daniel Noboa, political neophyte and heir to banana empire, elected president in Ecuador
1 year, 2 months ago

Daniel Noboa, political neophyte and heir to banana empire, elected president in Ecuador

LA Times  

Daniel Noboa has managed to do what his father failed at five times: getting elected as Ecuador’s president. After results showed him victorious, Noboa thanked Ecuadoreans for believing in “a new political project, a young political project, an improbable political project.” He said his goal is “to return peace to the country, to give education to the youth again, to …

Amid escalating drug war, Ecuador goes to polls to elect new president
1 year, 2 months ago

Amid escalating drug war, Ecuador goes to polls to elect new president

Firstpost  

Ecuadorans vote for a new president Sunday in the midst of a bloody drug war and a rash of political assassinations that cut short the bid of a popular candidate Ecuadorans vote for a new president Sunday in the midst of a bloody drug war and a rash of political assassinations that cut short the bid of a popular candidate. …

Ecuador election: As run-off looms, voters crave genuine change
1 year, 3 months ago

Ecuador election: As run-off looms, voters crave genuine change

Al Jazeera  

Left-wing Luisa Gonzalez will face off against centre-right Daniel Noboa in a campaign marred by political violence. “I just hope that whoever the new president is can at least give us some security and stability.” Indeed, as Ecuador grapples with rising crime and political violence, many in the country are craving change. Gonzalez represents the Citizen Revolution Movement, a left-wing …

Son of banana tycoon pulls off upset in Ecuador and advances to presidential runoff
1 year, 4 months ago

Son of banana tycoon pulls off upset in Ecuador and advances to presidential runoff

Associated Press  

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador — An heir to a fortune built on Ecuador’s main crop of bananas has pulled off an upset by advancing to the country’s presidential runoff election in which he will face an ally of a convicted former president who remains an influential figure in the South American country. Daniel Noboa and leftist Luisa González, both young and with …

Ecuador election headed for run-off with left-wing Gonzalez in lead
1 year, 4 months ago

Ecuador election headed for run-off with left-wing Gonzalez in lead

Al Jazeera  

The second-round presidential vote will be held on October 15 between Luisa Gonzalez and entrepreneur Daniel Noboa. Ecuador’s presidential election appears headed to a run-off vote in October between left-wing candidate Luisa Gonzalez and business scion Daniel Noboa, according to partial results. With 85 percent of votes counted, Gonzalez – a protege of former President Rafael Correa who has promised …

Eight presidential candidates enter Ecuador’s early election race
1 year, 6 months ago

Eight presidential candidates enter Ecuador’s early election race

Al Jazeera  

Eight presidential candidates have registered to face off when Ecuadoreans head to the polls for early elections on August 20. The polls will cap an extraordinary series of events that saw President Guillermo Lasso dissolve the opposition-controlled National Assembly and cut his own term short instead of facing impeachment proceedings. Luisa Gonzalez: The Citizen Revolution Movement, a party founded by …

How youth, women could decide Ecuador’s next president
3 years, 9 months ago

How youth, women could decide Ecuador’s next president

Al Jazeera  

Two presidential candidates, Andres Arauz and Guillermo Lasso, begin final stretch of campaigning on Tuesday ahead of April runoff. Quito, Ecuador – Ecuador’s two final presidential hopefuls are beginning the last stretch of the official election campaign on Tuesday, only weeks before voters return to the polls for an April 11 runoff. Arauz secured 32.72 percent support in last month’s …

Polls close in Ecuador’s tight presidential election
3 years, 10 months ago

Polls close in Ecuador’s tight presidential election

Al Jazeera  

Polls have closed in Ecuador after voters headed out in large numbers to pick a new president in an election held under the shadow of a severe economic crisis and discontent over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Sunday’s vote will see the South American nation’s 13.1 million voters choose a successor to unpopular socialist President Lenin Moreno, as well …

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