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Cochapamba, Ecuador – 11 February 2025
1. Various of people in streets
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Cofre Totasig, President of the Autonomous Decentralized Government of Cochapamba: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
"We have analyzed the proposals, since I’ve said before, and for that reason we have supported Daniel Noboa, but there was no good result. This is why now we are not going to fall into the same trap. So all of us residents who belong to this parish, canton and province, are going to analyze all the single proposals and give a definitive statement of support."
3. Various of sheep grazing
4. Gloria Llugsha sitting on her bed
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gloria Llugsha, Cochapamba resident: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 6++
"I feel disappointed with all the promises politicians make, and then they forget about us. It would be a deception to all the community."
6. Election campaign banners for candidate Luisa Gonzalez
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Saquisilí, Ecuador – 11 February 2025
7. Election campaign banners for incumbent president Daniel Noboa
STORYLINE:
As Ecuador’s presidential election heads into a second round of voting people in the remote Indigenous community of Cochapampa have been weighing up which candidate will get their support.
Ecuador’s April runoff election for president will test the lasting influence of former leftist President Rafael Correa when his protege, lawyer Luisa González, goes up against the conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa.
Neither Noboa nor González won an outright majority in Sunday’s first-round election, but they both were way ahead of the other 14 candidates and each within a percentage point of each other, according to results Monday.
Support from voters in Cochapampa, a remote Indigenous community at an altitude of 3,600 meters in the Ecuadorian Andes, along with other Andean villages will be key to helping win the presidential race.
Residents are politically loyal to Indigenous leader, Leonidas Iza, but in the runoff election on April 13, they will have to decide between Noboa or Gonzalez.
In the 2023 snap election between the two candidates Noboa did well among the Indigenous sectors.
A little more than a year ago, he came to power when no one expected him to even pass the first round, thanks in part to the support of provinces with a majority Indigenous population such as Cotopaxi, Imbabura or Tungurahua.
On Tuesday, he acknowledged that he will again look to those communities for votes.
Cochapamba is a rural parish in the municipality of Saquisili.
It is about two hours from capital Quito, which can only be reached by crossing the foggy roads of the Andean highlands and advancing along a winding final stretch of steep hairpin bends.
This small town is home to 6,063 people who sustain themselves mainly by growing white onions to sell and distribute in the country’s markets.
All are Indigenous and speak Quichuwa and Spanish, explains the president of the local government, Luis Enrique Cofre Totasig.
There is only one main square paved with stones and around it a few precarious one-story houses.
Around the corner, everything is green and wet. There are no large trees anymore. The animals graze, chickens flutter loose and women in red ponchos herd their sheep.
Last Sunday the inhabitants of Cochapamba went to vote, some after walking one or two hours to the polling station.
It remains to be seen who they will support in three months’ time.
AP video shot by Cesar Olmos
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