This Sunday, February 9, the vote of the presidential and legislative elections of Ecuador is carried out with the participation of more than 13.7 million citizens who have been called to the polls to choose their representatives for the period 2025-2029 , with the current president, Daniel Noboa, and the candidate Luisa González, as favorites for the presidency.
16 candidates run to the maximum position of the Executive, however, the contest was reduced to a dispute between Noboa, of the National Democratic Action Party (DNA), and González, of Citizen Revolution.
The 4,349 electoral enclosures installed in the 24 provinces of the country will begin operating from 07:00 local time (12:00 GMT) and will be open until 17:00 local time (22:00 GMT).
06:45 am | Diana Atamaint, president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador, announced the general elections 2025 and assured that, from 5:00 p.m., authorized companies will transmit the results of their surveys to the urn mouth and that, from From 19:30, official results would begin to be issued.
07:15 am | The current president and candidate Daniel Noboa, representative of the ruling party, exercised his vote in the Olón canton, province of Santa Elena and retired without giving statements to the press.
08:00 am | The candidate Carlos Rabascall went to his voting center at early hours and voted, when he left Be the Ecuadorian people. “
09:00 am | Luisa González, candidate for correismo voted in Manabí, surrounded by supporters and under a strong police protection. After voting, he called for electoral transparency and denounced irregularities in the process. “They know the irregular ones that have been committed from the moment the ‘president-candidate’ has not requested a license,” he said to international veterans, in reference to Noboa’s reluctance to depart from the position of president throughout the electoral campaign .
9:30 am | Henry Cucalón, who is part of the 16 candidates arrived with his partner Carla Larrea after 09:00 to the Javier Educational Unit, on Avenida del Bombero, in Guayaquil and assured after exercising his right that “today is a day, where The great winner must be Ecuadorian democracy and today citizens have the right to express themselves.
10:00 am | CNE offers a first electoral balance and highlights that until 10:00 in the morning 100% of the vote receiving joints (JRV) are installed and 8% of voters have come to the polls. It is a percentage similar to previous processes. The president of the common entity, Diana Atamaint, said the voting time is two minutes.
10:18 am | Andrea González voted in the Chongón Fiscal Educational Unit and told the press: “I would love to have a green and liberal party (…). At the moment it is very soon to talk about other elections”, this regarding its plans for the presidency . Also, referring to young people, he said: “I see that young people today take this with much more civism.”
11:00 am | The candidate and lawyer Pedro Granja exercised his vote in Guayaquil accompanied by his wife and work team. In his statements he highlighted the importance of the process being transparent and claimed to have confidence in the results.
In addition, 1,682 national and international observers comply with their technical deployment in the different electoral centers.
11:50 am | JiMmy Jairala, candidate for the presidency of Ecuador, exercised his right to vote in the Christian Bible Path Educational Unit of Fe, in Guayaquil.
In that sense, he said he will wait for the results in the city of Guayaquil.
12:00 pm | The presidential candidate Juan Iván Cueva, of the Amigo Movement, voted in the morning in the city of Loja, from where he invited all Ecuadorians to vote and to celebrate the democratic day.
12:50 pm | The presidency candidate for the Christian Social Party (PSC), Henry Kronfle, criticized President Noboa and CNE: “We do not trust at all on this occasion in the National Electoral Council, after what we saw, which were permissive and that There may be conflict of interest between the president of the National Electoral Council and relatives that may be in functions of the Government! He said in reference to Diana Atamaint.
01:00 pm | Jorge Scare, exercised his right to vote at the Aguirre Abad School, in northern Guayaquil. He went to the electoral enclosure in the company of his family and candidates of his party. He assured in his statements that he will have “hard hand” to combat the insecurity that currently hit the country.
01:40 pm | The presidential candidate, Leonidas Iza, He exercised his right to vote in the Toacaso Educational Unit and declared that he will respect the will of the people and wait for the results in Quito.
02:00 pm | Vice President Verónica Abad arrived with her family and supporters to vote in her electoral center located in Cuenca, in the Manuel J Calle Educational Unit and urged to defend democracy and remain vigilant.
02:10 pm | The candidate for the presidency for democracy yes, Iván Saquicela Rodas, exercised his right to vote in Cuenca this afternoon and mentioned that today there will be “a surprise” in relation to the results of the elections, since, according to him, the citizens want to change The political class.
03:00 pm | Víctor Araus, candidate for the presidency for the People, Equality and Democracy Movement, came to vote at the Fray Jodoco Ricke school in Lumbisí, Cumbayá. In his statements he reiterated that one of the main axes of his government proposal is to fight against the insecurity that plagues the country.
06:00 pm | They closed the polls in Ecuador and local authorities and international observation missions stressed that the electoral day was developed normally and without incident.
