(14 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Olon, Ecuador – 13 April 2025
1. Ecuador President Daniel Noboa arriving
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Daniel Noboa, Ecuadorian President:
"This day has been historic, this victory has also been historic. A victory of more than ten points, a victory of more than 1 million votes, where there is no doubt who is the winner, and that has been based on the perseverance, struggle, and work of each of the members of this team, of this team that seeks this new Ecuador."
3. Noboa leaving
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quito, Ecuador – 13 April 2025
4. Presidential candidate Luisa González arriving, greeting team
5. Mid de Luisa González speaking to her supporters
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luisa González; Ecuadorian presidential candidate, Citizen Revolution Movement:
"I want to be very clear and emphatic: the Citizen Revolution has always recognized a defeat in the last elections, when the polls, the tracking, the statistics have shown it, today we do not recognize the results."
7. Wide of González
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luisa González; Ecuadorian presidential candidate, Citizen Revolution Movement:
"We are going to defend our right to democracy and ask for a recount and for the polls to be opened, because Ecuador, Ecuador, cannot continue to be governed by someone who is incapable of leading the country towards peace, towards non-violence, towards development, who only knows how to do business for his family, persecute and hate the Ecuadorian people."
9. Mid of González supporters
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luisa González; Ecuadorian presidential candidate, Citizen Revolution Movement:
"I denounce before my people, before the media and before the world that Ecuador is living in a dictatorship and we are facing the worst and most grotesque electoral fraud in the history of the Republic of Ecuador."
11. Various of González supporters
STORYLINE:
Ecuadorian voters weary of crime reelected President Daniel Noboa, a conservative young millionaire with a divisive no-holds-barred crime-fighting record, by a wide margin Sunday, but his opponent vowed to seek a recount over what she described as “grotesque” electoral fraud.
Figures released by Ecuador’s National Electoral Council showed Noboa receiving 55.8% of the vote with more than 92% of ballots counted, while leftist lawyer Luisa González earned 44%. Council president Diana Atamaint said those results showed an “irreversible trend” in favor of Noboa.
The win gives Noboa four years to fulfill the promises he first made in 2023, when he stunned voters by winning a snap election and a 16-month presidency despite his limited political experience.
Noboa, heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, is expected to continue applying some of his no-holds-barred crimefighting strategies that part of the electorate finds appealing but which have tested the limits of laws and norms of governing.
González’s defeat marks the third consecutive time that the party of Rafael Correa, the country’s most influential president this century, failed to return to the presidency. She told supporters that her campaign “does not recognize the results presented by the “(National Electoral Council),” arguing among other issues that pre-election polls showed her ahead of Noboa.
The candidates advanced to Sunday’s contest after getting the most votes in February’s first-round election. Noboa led González by about 17,000 votes that time.
AP video shot by Cesar Olmos and Daniel Tapia
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