The presidential debate between Daniel Noboa, of National Democratic Action (DNA), which seeks re -election, and Luisa González, of the correist movement Citizen Revolution (RC5), which will be held this Sunday, March 23, at 8:00 p.m., will last two hours, but could define the … triumph of who will govern Ecuador for the next four years, in a difficult prognosis choice for the closed results of the first round, which practically ended in a draw, with Noboa with 44.17% and Luisa González 44%.
This Sunday also begins the campaign of the second electoral round and will last 19 days, since Ecuadorians return to the polls on April 13 to define the presidential election.
The debate this Sunday will be held having as a background a political scandal that has shaken the country for some chats that the Prosecutor’s Office revealed that account for the political manipulation exerted by those who represented the correism in the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS), and whose members called ‘Blue League’. The information was extracted from the telephone that the Police withdrew to one of the counselors, in a raid on these offices as part of the investigative actions within a judicial case called ‘linked’, which investigates an alleged influence peddling. The CPCCS is the agency that chooses the highest state control authorities, including the Attorney General, so its power is enormous.
Controversies and crisis
These revelations plus the statements of two RC5 legislators in a program on the Ecuavisa television channel in which they said that one should think of a «Dollarization to the Ecuadorian» They have heated the political environment to the point that the candidate Luisa González was forced to pronounce and, in a kind of damage control, to ensure that their companions “tangled up in a subject that they do not dominate.” The dollar is highly valued by Ecuadorians, so the sole suspicion that they would like to stop using it as a legal tender is a reason for generalized rejection.
Daniel Noboa also reaches the debate with several crises in full development; The most recent is An oil spill in the coastal province of Emeradas that has contaminated two rivers and has left without the daily livelihood and isolated hundreds of families living in fishing, the capture of shell and the work of the field. The breakage of the pipeline that caused the spill is due to a disagree product of the severe winter that supports several provinces, but the Minister of Energy, Inés Manzano, said, in the last hours, that a probable sabotage is investigated as the cause of the spill, which has generated controversies.
The case of the vice president, who is back in Türkiye, continues to generate discrepancies because at the beginning of the campaign no one has pronounced whether Noboa must order Verónica Abad or not. It has also caused controversy the announcement made by the president of a “strategic alliance” with an American private security company that has a questionable file by the mercenaries that integrate it and that has generated criticism of security experts.
No surveys
For Noboa and González, the face of this Sunday is the second in their careers for the Presidency; The first starred on October 1, 2023, when they were also finalists in the elections anticipated by the ‘cross death’ that Guillermo Lasso decreed and that involved dissolving the National Assembly and terminating his own mandate. Daniel Noboa happened to him.
The debate this Sunday has aroused a lot of interest because Noboa’s triumph in the first round with Just 16,746 voting votes He left the two candidates with similar chances of triumph. The little difference generated harsh criticism of the companies that do surveys, since the majority assured that Noboa would win with about 10 points of difference, so they affirmed that it could even take the victory in a single lap.
Whether because of criticism or errors in measurements, after the first round, companies have refrained from spreading surveys, so the country does not know how campaigns march; This fact led to an analyst who uses figures as tools to know what people think and how the country is going, he said today “we are blind.”
The absence of figures on candidates He has fed more the expectation for this Sunday’s debate, despite the fact that the issues they will discuss are already defined by the National Committee for Debates, which has chosen five axes: Education, Health and Social Security, Economy and Employment and Governance, and the questions asked of the moderator will be closed questions.
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