In the final stretch of the road to the Ecuadorian presidential elections on October 15, millionaire Daniel Noboa has a slight advantage in the polls, after his surprise emergence in the first round, in which he reached 24% of the votes. In the runoff he will compete with Correism’s chosen one, Luisa González, to be the next guest of the Carondelet Palace.
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After the presidential debate on October 1, Daniel Noboa surprised again by taking the lead in the opinion polls over González, the favorite of the first electoral round. With 53% voting intention, according to the polling firm ‘Comunicaliza’, Noboa now leads Correismo by nearly 7 points (46.7%).
“Say no to the dirty campaign” is the slogan of the 35-year-old businessman, who aspires to replace the current Ecuadorian president, Guillermo Lasso, who last May, in the middle of a process for a political trial against him, invoked the figure of “crossed death.”
With this measure, the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) was dissolved and extraordinary elections were called, in order to renew the Legislative and Executive Powers, elections in which the candidate of the National Democratic Action alliance (ADN) has a good chance of winning. The presidency.
Businessman and son of a banana magnate
Born in Guayaquil, Daniel Noboa Azin is a businessman and former legislator. However, the now presidential candidate is better known in the Ecuadorian political circle because of his family.
He is the son of Álvaro Noboa, an Ecuadorian billionaire who made his fortune in the banana industry and is the person who has run for the Presidency of Ecuador the most times, up to five times, reaching the second round on three of them. Despite his father’s participation in public life, Noboa Azin has never been part of the parties that his father represented.
With a degree in Business Administration from New York University and a master’s degree in Governance and Public Communication, Daniel Noboa began his political life in 2021, when he managed to obtain a seat in the Ecuadorian National Assembly, where he was also elected president of the Commission of Economic, Productive Development and Microenterprise, a position that “he occupied in 19.2% of the laws approved by the National Assembly,” according to the candidate’s web portal.
The young businessman turned politician is running for the Presidency through the ADN alliance, a multiparty political front that includes People, Equality and Democracy, a party founded by Arturo Moreno, brother of former president Lenin Moreno, and the MOVER party, formerly known as Alianza País and of which former president Rafael Correa was a part. However, Noboa appears to voters as an antithesis of Correism.
“People have made their options clear, I don’t believe in those coalitions, that sounds like moorings to me. People will be able to vote for the option that is not Correismo, and that is Daniel Noboa,” the candidate mentioned during his first campaign act.
“Tough hand” against crime and foreign investment
The basis of Noboa’s presidential campaign is related to his proposals to stop the wave of dark violence that is plaguing Ecuador, stating that, if elected, his government would address crime with a “strong hand”, without leaving aside an ambitious reform of the country’s judicial and prison system, in addition to investing in education and public infrastructure, to address problems that, according to your government planare the root of crime.
In addition, the businessman has promised to promote job creation, especially for young people, through an economic plan that is based on attracting foreign investment and technological development, adding that private funds would be encouraged in industries such as electricity and oil.
One day before the second electoral round, Daniel Noboa presents himself as an option that challenges not only the ruling party, but also Correismo, which seeks to govern Ecuador again at least until 2025, an extraordinary period that the new president-elect will serve. after Lasso’s departure from power.
With Reuters, EFE and local media
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