The Trump effect and the mistakes of Correismo hand Daniel Noboa victory in Ecuador

The Trump effect and the mistakes of Correismo hand Daniel Noboa victory in Ecuador

The conservative president won re-election in a run-off against the leftist Luisa González by almost 12 points, a margin that no poll had anticipated

The populist left that Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, led between 2007 and 2017, seemed on the verge of a return to power, but in the end the victory of Daniel Noboa has been overwhelming: 55.6% of the votes against 44.3% of the correista Luisa González . Noboa, president for the last two years, again defeated González, by a much wider margin than in the early elections of 2023. Noboa’s margin of victory was a surprise, as the polls insist…

With 97.33% of the electoral records recorded and presented by the National Electoral Council, President Daniel Noboa is the winner of the second round with 55.65 % of the valid votes against 44.35 % of Luisa González, the candidate of the correismo.

The elections that took place last Sunday (13/04/2025) in Ecuador created multiple expectations in Latin America. Evidently the progressive sectors of the region expected the triumph of Luisa González, whom the polls anticipated the triumph. The candidate received the support of personalities like Claudia Sheinbaum and Lula da Silva, presidents of Mexico and Brazil, respectively, as well as Pepe Mujica, former president of Uruguay. But also the …

After the first part of the Latin American progressive cycle in the present century, that which is framed between the victory of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1999 and the departure of Rafael Correa’s government in 2017, the only country in which that political sensitivity did not regain power at any time has been Ecuador. Last Sunday, Luisa González, candidate for Citizen Revolution – the political party led from his exile in Belgium by former Pr…

By Daniel Kersffeld, April 15, 2025. Photo: Candidate Luisa González. The fear of the continuity of the neoliberal right and Donald Trump or the fear of the left and the return of Rafael Correa? That was the central question of the April 13 ballot in Ecuador. Unfortunately, Ecuadorian society gave him its support [...] La entrada Ecuador. A new triumph of “anticorreismo” was first published in Latin American Summary.