Ecuadors electoral body awards the presidency to Daniel Noboa

Ecuador’s electoral body awards the presidency to Daniel Noboa

The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador today awarded the presidency of the Republic to Daniel Noboa after the expiration of the contestation period and confirmed the results of the elections.

With a total of five million 251,000 votes, Noboa and his vice president Verónica Abad won the vote on October 15 against the Citizen Revolution candidate Luisa González.

It is expected that on November 15 the CNE will present the winners of the votes with the document allowing them to carry out their duties and, possibly on December 1, the inauguration ceremony of the new president and his vice president will take place.

The future president has been outside the national territory for about three weeks, visiting France, Italy and Spain, where he met with King Felipe VI, football league boss Javier Tebas, as well as businessmen and potential investors.

The businessman, son of Álvaro Noboa, one of the richest people in the country due to his banana trade, will welcome a country mired in the worst wave of insecurity in history, an energy crisis and problems in its economy that will be difficult to overcome, according to According to analysts, the problem was solved in just a year and a half of his term.