Last Sunday, February 9, the elections were held in Ecuador to elect the President and Constitutional Vice President for the 2025-2029 period, as well as the representatives of the Andean Parliament and the assembly members for the same period. Regarding the presidential election and according to the information provided by the National Electoral Council of Ecuador, after 98% of the minutes have been scrutinized, it was determined that there was a draw of 44% of votes obtained by Daniel Noboa, of the party National Democratic Action (DNA), and Luisa González, of the leftist Citizen Revolution (RC) movement. According to Ecuador’s electoral legislation, for a presidential candidate to be proclaimed, more than 50% of the votes or 10 points ahead of his rival were required. The fixed CNE-Ecuador as the date for the second round on Sunday, April 13, 2025. In 2023, when Daniel Nobo and Luisa González faced for the first time, he was a winner, Daniel Noboa with 51.8% of votes, against 48.1% of Luisa González. Political analysts consider that the indigenous vote would be decisive in the second round, specifically the Pachakutik movement, a political arm of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) led by Leónidas Iza, who obtained 5.26% of votes.
Participation on your own initiative
What is your own initiative? Own initiative is understood as the right that every citizen has to present for himself (and without support from political organizations or groups of duly constituted electors and voters), his candidacy for a position of popular election, provided that he meets the established eligibility requirements In the Law. In this sense, the procedure that must be followed to present a candidacy on its own is the following:
1st. Request, before the National Office of Political Participation (OONAPA) or in the Ore’s of each of the states, the form for the collection of the manifestations of will in support of the candidacy on its own initiative, at the time included of 08:00 am to 04:00 pm 2 °. Consign, before the National Office of Political Participation (ONAPA) or in the Ore’s of each of the states, the forms of the manifestations of will equivalent to 5% of the electors and voters registered in the electoral registry of the territorial scope of the position of Popular election to which it aspires to run, at the time from 08:00 am to 04:00 pm 3 °. Osapa proceeds to verify that 5% of the required will have been consigned. Then it refers to the growing for the verification of the data of the signatories against the re. 4th. Approved the verification by the growing, the ONAPA informs the interested party to apply to summon the signatory voters to validate, before the Ore of the federal entity in which they are registered, their intention to support the candidacy.
