Ecuadorian President Daniel Novoa claimed on Tuesday that there was “a lot of irregularities” in the general election on Sunday 2025. defeat Founded socialist candidate Luisa Gonzalez in the first round.
Ecuador held general elections Sunday Select the next president, vice president, and members of the Parliament for the next four years.
The first round of the presidential election featured 16 candidates, but the presidential election was primarily centered around current incumbent President Noboa and his outsider ADN Party, as well as former president and protégé Gonzalez. I did. The fugitive Convicted felon Raphael Correa. Gonzalez ran as a candidate for the founding Civic Revolutionary Socialist Party of Correa.
Latest results Published Ecuador's National Election Council (CNE) shows Novoa won 44.18% of the votes against Gonzalez's 43.95% at the time of reporting.
Exit voting Published On Election Day, it seemed to indicate that Noboa was on track to get enough votes to be selected in the first round. The candidates scored at least 40% of the vote with a 50% or a 10-point lead, automatically urging a leaked election. Noboa and González are scheduled for Sunday, April 13th. In light of narrow results, Noboa Paused A post-election campaign event that his party had planned in the capital, Quito.
The Ecuadorian president spoke for the first time since Tuesday's election and allowed him to interview a local Radio Centro Outlet. I insisted He says that possessing “proof” of potential fraud prevented him from winning with “a higher person.”
“There were a lot of irregularities and we were still counting, we were still checking out certain states. [Organization of American States] Quick Count puts us on us at higher numbers and we're not done yet,” Noboa said.
“We have evidence and it. From there, there are challenges (…) that exist,” he continued, celebrating or not publishing the statement on Sunday after the initial results were published. The reason was that it was a questionable irregularity.
Neither President Novoa nor the ADN party representative publicly presented suspicious evidence during the report.
Despite the narrow consequences some international outlets have explained Novoa as a “technical tie” stress His political organization won in the first round, “We're in the second round, we've allegedly been a major political force. Our national movement is nine months old.”
Released by the American National Organization (OAS) statement The results presented by the Ecuadorian CNE on Tuesday afternoon will inform you that it will “conform” with the data obtained through prompt details of its election mission to Ecuador. The OAS added that its election mission has previously “not identified or received any signs of widespread irregularity that could change the outcome of the election.”
Similarly, the European Union announcement On Tuesday, the election mission to Ecuador discovered that the election is “transparent, well organized and peaceful”, but there are “pending challenges” ahead of future leaks.
Sunday's general election also saw a narrow consequence of parliament, with a new, almost two-party formation between the ADN and civic revolutions, but both parties secure a majority with 151-seat legislative bodies. Not done. Noboa told Radio Centro that vote counts have not yet been closed and there are seats pending challenges, but it is clear that ADN and the Civic Revolution will have two biggest blocks in Congress for the next four years. Ta.
Novoa's mother, Annabella Azin, ran for Congress during Sunday's elections, It is reportedly The Congressional candidate who received the most votes, therefore she will preside over the first session of the Congress held on May 14th. There, the final composition is organized among elected lawmakers.
He was asked if he would agree with his mother, who could occupy the Congressional presidency, but Novoa replied yes.
“I always agree that my mother should be the chairman of Congress. She has the merits of doing so, and that's her decision too,” Novore said.
The leak election on Sunday, April 13th between Noboa and González will be marked with both candidates facing the second time, followed by a leak. October 2023 The SNAP election where Noboa was elected to serve as president for the remainder of his constitutional term in 2021-2025. That special election was sparked by conservative former president Guillermo Lasso, who called for ambiguous “mutually guaranteed destruction” constitutional clauses, who dissolved both the enforcement and legislative divisions in early 2023.
Lasso has invoked ambiguous constitutional clauses in response to the leftist lawmakers who launched 14 different perches against him between 2021 and 2023, making it impossible for him to govern.
