Although there are 16 candidates who aspire to the head of the Executive, two of them appear as favorites, according to the polls: the current president, Daniel Noboa, and Luisa González, of the Citizen Revolution movement.

The rest barely have the support of around one percent each or less, according to the polls prior to the elections on February 9.

Noboa already beat González in the early elections of 2023 and everything indicates that in 2025 the runoff could be repeated between these two ideologically opposed figures.

The company Comunicaliza reported that just 40 days before the vote, the president is ahead of González, but only with 3.6 percent of voting intentions.

The next 12 months will depend on the votes, let’s hope we are not worse off, José Chicaiza, a retiree, told Prensa Latina, reminding Noboa of his unfulfilled promise to raise pensions.

Despite the optimism with which some begin 2025, Ecuador enters this election year hit by insecurity, blackouts, lack of adequate employment, and a huge external debt contracted with international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund.

Historian Juan Paz y Miño warned that since 2017 three governments have consolidated the business-oligarchic economy in Ecuador and the results at the end of 2024 are a deinstitutionalized State, affected sovereignty, violated individual, social, environmental and labor rights, aggravated life, work and collective security.

“That is why the hopes for a different future, the one the country deserves, are a reason for joy and happiness for Ecuadorians. A dream that we share with our Latin America,” the academic expressed on his social networks.

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