(30 Mar 2025)
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Tixán, Ecuador – 30 March 2025
1. Various of presidential candidate Luisa González arriving at the "National Meeting for an Equitable, Plurinational and Violence Free Ecuador" and greeting her supporters
2. Various members of the community putting a poncho on Luisa González
3. Various of supporters of Luisa González
4. Various of signing of pact between Luisa González and leaders of the Pachakutik Indigenous movement to receive their support for the second round of the presidential election
5. Event
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Guillermo Churuchumbi, National Director of the Pachakutik Indigenous Movement:
"The agreement we have just signed is an agreement for the dignity of the 16 million Ecuadorians."
7. Luisa Gonzalez greeting the people
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luisa González, Presidential candidate for the Citizen Revolution Movement:
"But today this unity is an act of love for 18 million Ecuadorians. This unity is an act of dedication to the Ecuadorian people, this unity is a demonstration of maturity, of political maturity, of maturity that we, the leaders who seek the transformation of the country, must have."
9. Security
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luisa González, Presidential candidate for the Citizen Revolution Movement:
"And we are all here: you, our brother leaders of the different political parties, organizations, social representatives. We are here to govern and transform Ecuador together and in unity."
11. Luisa González’s supporters
12. Various of end of the event
STORYLINE:
Two weeks ahead of the presidential elections in which Ecuador will elect its next president, the leftist candidate Luisa González signed on Sunday an agreement with an Indigenous political organization in a call for unity to face the right-wing option.
The agreement, signed during a ceremony in Tixán, in the province of Chimborazo, with a high Indigenous population, contains 25 commitments.
Among the points of the plan are the implementation of a security plan with respect for human rights, the rejection of illegal mining, and the collection of taxes from the largest debtors of the state.
The signing of the agreement followed an assembly in which leaders of several movements and organizations conditioned their support for González at the polls.
González will face candidate and president Daniel Noboa in the second round of elections on April 13. González represents the opposition movement Revolución Ciudadana, led by former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017).
Noboa is a young businessman, son of a billionaire who seeks reelection for a four-year term.
Noboa is currently serving a transition period that completes that of his predecessor, Guillermo Lasso, who dissolved the Assembly and ended his term of office early.
Both were finalists with a narrow margin of error in the first electoral round.
Noboa obtained 44.17% of the vote and González obtained 44%.
During the signing ceremony, González wore a red poncho characteristic of the Indigenous communities of the Sierra, and the coordinator of the political organization Pachakutik that belongs to the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador.
"The agreement we have just signed is an agreement for the dignity of the 16 million Ecuadorians," said Guillermo Churuchumbi, National Director of the Pachakutik Indigenous Movement.
More than 13 million Ecuadorians will go to the polls in a divided political landscape.
AP video by Cesar Olmos
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