Quito, Ecuador – Ecuador is preparing for a high-stakes presidential run-off on April 13, as voters choose between two final candidates: leftist Luisa Gonzalez and centre-right incumbent Daniel ...

Failure to vote results in a $46 fine. A mural of Luisa Gonzalez, presidential candidate for the Citizen Revolution party, covers a wall in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Thursday, April 10, 2025.

He will be running against Luisa González, the protégé of Ecuador’s left-wing former President Rafael Correa. The first round of voting in February ended with a near tie between both candidates.

despite a stronger-than-expected showing by his leftist challenger Luisa Gonzalez. With 93 percent of the ballots counted from Sunday's election, Noboa, who campaigned on his crackdown on drug ...

QUITO, Ecuador — Daniel Noboa stunned voters in 2023 when he won a snap election for a 16-month presidency after only a brief stint as a lawmaker and with no established political machinery.