The voting centers for the second round of the presidential election in Ecuador, in which the current president, Daniel Noboa, and the Correist candidate Luisa González, ended an electoral journey of ten uninterrupted hours. The counting of the votes has already started for a dispute that will be quite fierce.
Voting took place from 7 am, local time until 5 am, local time, normal and without important incidents, something highlighted by the European Union Electoral Observation missions (EU) and the Organization of American States (OAS), the two largest delegations of observers sent to the country.
Noboa will await the results at his residence on the beach, in the coastal locality of Olón, located in Santa Elena province, while González will do so at the headquarters that the Citizen Revolution, a party led by former President Rafael Correa, has in the capital, Quito.
Neither of the two candidates prepared a meeting in the face of a tight result, as there is no certainty that one is sure, by the end of the night, who will be the winner or winner who will rule Ecuador for the next four years.
Since the beginning of the Electoral Day, the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Diana Atamaint, has rejected any narrative of fraud and defended the transparency of the process organized by the agency she chaired by stating that “the accusations without proofs cause damage.”
After the first round, both noboa and González presented complaints without proof of alleged irregularities in the voting and investigation process, which were quickly discarded by the EU and OAS delegations that performed the observation.
Several political actors appealed for both candidates to respect the results of scrutiny released by the CNE.
More than 13.7 million Ecuadorians were summoned to the polls to decide whether to reelect a full term or, on the contrary, they would return power to the running of González, who would become the first woman in Ecuador history to gain a presidential election.
In total, 83.7% of citizens qualified to vote attended the ballot box, according to the CNE definitive report.
The elections took place again under rigorous security measures, with the unfolding of about 100,000 members of the security forces, including nearly 60,000 police and about 40,000 military personnel designated to protect voting sites.
It also caused controversy for Noboa’s decision to decree a new state of exception to seven provinces in the country and to the capital, with the purpose of combating organized crime, which is one of the successive states of exception decreed since in early 2024 declared the “war” to criminal gangs.
For over a year, Ecuador has been under “internal armed conflict” to combat the escalation of criminal violence, which led the country to put themselves at the top of Latin America in the homicide index, a trend that intensified in early 2025, with an average of one murder per hour.
This content was originally published in ballot boxes close to the second round of the presidential election in Ecuador on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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