No candidate in Sunday's special presidential election received enough support to be declared winner. The vote took place amid thousands of police officers and soldiers deployed across the country.
Presidential candidate Luisa González, of the Citizen's Revolution Political Movement, and her running mate Andres Arauz, celebrate after early results showed them ahead in a snap election, in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023.
Christian Zurita was in third place with 16%. His name was not on the ballot, but he replaced Fernando Villavicencio, whose killing this month as he left a campaign rally in Quito, the capital, laid bare people's fears over unprecedented violence in a country they considered peaceful up until three years ago.
González, a lawyer and former lawmaker, spent much of her campaign highlighting her affiliation with the party of former President Rafael Correa. The former president remains influential even though in 2020 he was found guilty of corruption and sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison. He has been living in his wife's native Belgium since 2017.
Surrounded by supporters, the younger Noboa told reporters that he has not achieved his goal because he has not yet won the presidency."Tomorrow, we will have to start working again campaigning. There's a runoff." Voting in Ecuador is mandatory for most voters, and many of them weighed the risk of getting robbed against a fine and inconveniences they could face for not voting.
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