Daniel Noboa has formalized his candidacy for re-election in Ecuador for the period 2025-2029
president of ecuador Daniel Noboaregistered his candidacy for candidate this Friday re-election as head of state in the 2025 election, where he will seek to be elected for a full term (2025–2029) after an early exit after winning a special election in 2023 Guillermo Lasso (2021–2023).
Noboa will contest again in the next election as a pro candidate National Democratic Action (ADN), its own political formation, which will participate alone on this occasion after achieving its electoral registration, which it failed to do in the last elections, where it arrived in alliance with other political organizations.
As a result of the recent fires in Quito, DNA decided to suspend the event planned to register Nobo’s candidacy before National Electoral Council (CNE) and decided to do the process online only.
In a statement by the political party, Noboa pointed out that this is not the time for celebration but it is time to reaffirm commitment to the country.
“Today, more than ever, we live in a moment of reflection. These are difficult days for our nation, which is suffering from climate change, as well as narco-terrorist groups that seek to sow fear and threaten our democratic way of life.”, Noboa pointed.
The president, who in 2023 became the youngest president to win an election in Ecuador’s history, took over the country with highest homicide rate of Latin America, the product of the increase in criminal violence, and therefore at the beginning of 2024 he began the fight against extortion into the category of “internal armed conflict” and ordered a state of emergency.
“For ten months we have fought against the drug trade, corruption and those who refuse to accept that the Ecuadorian people have chosen a different alternative.” said Noboa, who also had to deal with a severe power crisis where he had to order scheduled blackouts of up to eleven hours a day.
“We faced unprecedented circumstances, with a state in intensive care and a society plagued by a dark and dormant past,” he added.
In this new candidacy, a businesswoman will also accompany him as a candidate for vice president. Maria Jose Pintowho until now served as head of the Technical Secretariat Ecuador grows without child malnutrition.
In the last election, she was the candidate for Vice President Verónica Abad, but she maintains a strong conflict with Noboa, facing several open judicial and administrative processes that could lead to her removal.
Abad, who was sent by the President as ambassador to Israel with the mission of mediating peace in Middle Eastaccused Noboa of being in charge of the alleged political harassment and harassment against her in order to force her to resign and thus avoid having to temporarily delegate the presidential functions to her, as the Constitution envisages, when she has to request time off for an election campaign.
In this election, the people who fill the positions Presidency and Vice Presidency for the period 2025-2029 a National Assembly (Parliament), which will have 137 to 151 deputies, while five representatives of the Andean Parliament will also be selected.
The election date is scheduled for Sunday, February 9, 2025and for the presidential election, there will be a runoff on Sunday, April 13, between the two candidates with the most votes in the event that no candidate receives at least 50% of the vote or 40% and an advantage of more than ten percentage points over the other.
According to preliminary polls published so far, the contest is set to be a new face-off between incumbent Daniel Noboa and Correismo presidential candidate Luisa González.
(With information from EFE)