Giolkol, Ecuador – Ecuador’s presidential elections are set up to reaffirm the 2023 race on Sunday, when voters have made a young, conservative compared to the country’s most influential president’s left -wing program in this century He chose billionaires.
President Daniel Noboh and Louise Gonzlez are a clear front runner in the pond of 16 candidates. Everyone has promised voters to reduce the widespread crime that brought their lives back to a new routine four years ago.
The rise of violence in the country of South America is linked to this Smuggling of cocaine The neighboring country has been manufactured in Colombia and Peru. Many voters have become crimes that their personal and collective losses will be a fixed factor in deciding whether the third president may turn to Ecuador in four years or if Noboa deserves more time Û”
Voting is essential in Ecuador. In the port city of Gayakol, people stood outside a public university under a light rains where tens of thousands were expected to put the belt.
Crime, group and extortion
“For me, this president is disastrous,” said Marta Berse, 35, who went to the voting center with her three teenage children. “Can he change things in four more years? No. He did nothing.”
Barris, who need to pay $ 25 a month to the local group to avoid harassment or even worse, said they will vote for Gonzlez because they believe they can reduce crime throughout the board and the economy Can improve
More than 13.7 million people are eligible to vote. To win a straight, a candidate needs a 50 % vote or at least 40 % with a 10 -point lead over the nearest challenge. If needed, the run -off will be on April 13.
Noboh defeated Gonzlez In October 2023 a snap election run off The then president, Gallermo Laso’s decision to dissolve and cut off his mandate, was mobilized. Noboh and Gonzlez, a mantle Former President Rafael KoreaBefore launching the 2023 presidential campaigns, only served short defects as legislators.
To examine the limits of laws and the principles of governance
The 37 -year -old Noboh is the heir to the banana trade. At the age of 18, he launched an event organizing an event and then joined his father’s Nobo Corporation, where he held administrative positions in shipping, logistics and commercial areas. His political career began in 2021, when he won a seat in the National Assembly and headed the Economic Development Commission.
Under this presidency, the massacre rate decreased from 46.18 per 100,000 people in 2023 to 38.76 in 100,000 people last year. Nevertheless, it was much more than 6.85 in every 100,000 people in 2019, and some of Noboh No holds banned Crime Fighting The strategy for examining the boundaries of the rules and the principles of governance has come into scrutiny inside and outside the country.
Its interrogation plans also include the state of the internal armed conflict announced to mobilize the army in January 2024, where organized crimes approved police raids at the Mexico embassy in the Mexican capital, Queto, Queto. Also approved last year. Arrest the former vice president George GlassA convicted criminal and fugitive who has been living there for months.
However, his head -on approach is also getting her vote.
“My vote was for Noboh because of his abilities and because he maintains a direct confrontation with armed drug -surviving groups and corrupt,” said Pablo Voteruba, a retired doctor in Queto.
‘Things are not going to change’
47 -year -old Gonzalez received various government jobs during Korea’s presidency, leading the Ecuador from 2007 to 2017 to lead conservatively conservatively independently of conservatively conservatively. Do and in his last years as President, it has increased sharply. She was In 2020, a jail sentence was sentenced in a scandal of corruption.
Gonzlez was a legislator from 2021 to May 2023, when Laso dissolved the National Assembly. She was not familiar with most voters unless the Korean party elected her as a presidential candidate for the Snap elections.
Waiting for her vote, Architecture student Kila Taurus said she had not yet decided who to vote. He said that no one will be able to reduce crime in Ecuador due to deep root government corruption.
“If I could, I wouldn’t be here,” Taurus said, who has witnessed three robberies in public buses over the past four years and barely survived a carjacking in December. “Things are not going to change.”
Taurus added that criminal activity has affected his education as his neighboring group targeted every person walking on the streets at 10pm, which causes night classes to remember the curfew Forced to leave. He said his family was not forced to pay the monthly extortion fees, but the group requested the neighbors to vote for a particular candidate.
“In my area, he left the flyer at every door of the house, saying that if they do not vote for Louis, they will face the consequences.”
