Daniel Noboa and Luisa Gonzalez will reedit ballot in Ecuador

Luisa Gonzalez, of the Citizen Revolution Party (CRP), and the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, aspiring for reelection, will reedit a ballot to define the future president of this nation. 
 
 
Apparently, Noboa and his team expected to win in a single round, despite the fact that several polls and experts predicted a fairly even scenario with the representative of the Correista movement in the elections of this Sunday, February 9.

After the official announcement that he should compete again for the presidential seat, the president did not even show up at the place where his supporters and the press were waiting for the celebrations. For the communicator and sociologist Irene León, of the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity (REDH)-Ecuador Chapter, the idea of positioning a supposed victory of the ruler in the first round was a media strategy that in the end did not work.

“Many people are in favor of an urgent change due to the critical conditions in which the country is in all fields and this was seen in the closing of the campaign with the popular support to the candidate of the CR, as it has not been seen for a long time”, León said in declarations to Prensa Latina.

In the analyst’s opinion, going to the second round for Gonzalez means a moral victory in the midst of scenarios of possible fraud and irregularities, including the accusation that the Armed Forces would have a parallel computing center.

León recalled how in recent days Progressive International and other observers have raised warnings that the process was uneven due to legal abuses by the president-candidate.