Crime, group and extortion
Under Noboh’s watch, 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 per 100,000 people in 2019, and other crimes, such as kidnapping and extortion, have intensified the heavens, which makes people afraid to leave their homes.
“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 have to pay $ 25 a month to the local group to avoid harassment or worse, said they support Gonzlez because they believe they can reduce crime throughout the board and the economy Can improve
Noba defeated Gonzlez in the Snap elections run -off in October 2023, which began with the decision to dissolve the National Assembly of the then President Gallermo Laso and consequently to shorten his mandate. Former President Rafael Korea’s Mantovo and Gonzalez served short -term as just a lawmakers before running the presidential campaign this year.
To win the straight on Sunday, a candidate needed a 50 % vote or at least 40 % with a 10 -point lead over the nearest challenge.
More than 100,000 police officers and army members were deployed nationwide to protect the elections, including voting centers. At least 50 officers arrived at a voting center with Noboh, his wife and his 2 -year -old son, where the president put his belt in the small community of Olynn’s Pacific.
To examine the limits of laws and the principles of governance
Noboh, 37, launched an event organizing company at the age of 18 and then joined his father’s Noboh 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.
In the past 15 months, some of their Manu Dora, or heavy hands, have arrived in the country to examine the boundaries of the rules and the rules of governance to reduce crime, to check the rules of strategy rules. –
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 former Vice President George Glass, a convicted criminal and fugitive who has been living there for months.
However, his head -on approach is also getting her vote.
“Noba is the only person who harses organized crime,” said the retired German Resist, who voted in favor of re -electing the president. .
‘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. He was sentenced to prison in a corruption scandal in 2020.
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.
Queto University of American Professor Maria Cristina Beas said that Sunday is a “victory” for the Korean party because before the election, there is a wider difference between Noboh and Gonzlez.
Noba will be forced to re -surge in the danger that he has already reached the roof of his vote, said Eastbin Ron, the Faculty of Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences at Quoto’s International University See. Ron attributed this to Noboh’s problems during his administration.
Looking forward to the turn to vote in the cockcal, the architecture student, Kaila Tours, said he 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,” Toris said, who witnessed three robberies in public buses in the past four years and barely survived a carjacking in December. “Things are not going to change.”
