With just a few weeks to go ahead of the runoff election in Ecuador, candidates Luisa González of Citizens' Revolution Movement and Daniel Noboa, President and Candidate of National Democratic Action, are set to hold a presidential debate on sunday night. teleSUR
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00:00And with just a few weeks to go ahead of the runoff election in Ecuador, candidates Lisa
00:04Gonzalez of Citizens' Revolution Movement and Daniel Doboa, president and candidate
00:08of National Democratic Action, are set to hold a presidential debate this Sunday night.
00:15More than 11 million people took part in the first round of elections in Ecuador, but since
00:20none of the candidates reached the majority of the votes, a runoff election will be required
00:24in accordance with the electoral laws of the country, which establishes that for a candidate
00:28to be the winner in the first round, he or she must obtain 50% of the votes plus one,
00:33or at least 40% with a 10-point advantage over the second place.
00:39After a technical tie in the first round, the runoff ballot will be between Daniel Doboa,
00:44the current president, supported by the National Democratic Action Party, who obtained 44.17%
00:50of the votes in the first round, and Luisa Gonzalez of the Citizens' Revolution Party,
00:55who obtained 44%, a difference of less than 70,000 votes according to official data by
01:01the National Electoral Council of the country.
01:04The mandatory presidential debate of the second round will take place on Sunday, March 23,
01:09and will be broadcasted on national radio and television.
01:12Unlike the first debate, this time a segment of closed questions will be incorporated in
01:17the methodology.
01:18The official political campaign starts on March 23, and will run until April 10.
01:30Gonzalez's campaign focuses on the call to revive Ecuador, re-establish key institutions
01:35such as the Ministry of Justice and Security, combat organized crime, and promote an equitable
01:40economic model.
01:41Novoa, for his part, proposes security and economic development and the fight against
01:46corruption in Ecuador.
01:48However, his campaign has been marked by several controversies, from breaches of the law, benefits
01:53for family members at the expense of the public treasury, or the recent alliance with Eric
01:57Prince, U.S. mercenary, founder of the private military company Blackwater, to allegedly
02:02confront organized crime.
02:07This process is taking place in an environment marked by electoral violence.
02:11From January 2024 to February 2025, a total of 56 aggressions have been declared, including
02:1825 murders, according to the most recent preliminary report on political violence in the 2025 elections
02:24presented by the Citizen Observatory on this issue.