The presidential debate between Luisa González, candidate of Citizens’ Revolution Movement and Daniel Noboa, President and candidate of National Democratic Action, marks the beginning of the electoral campaign for the second round of elections in the Latin American country. teleSUR
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00:00Now, I will open the envelope.
00:07The question on education is,
00:13what measures will you establish to improve the quality of education,
00:20reduce drop out of school,
00:23and reduce the criminality in students?
00:30More than 72,000 children drop out of school in this last.
00:47There are our children.
00:49What are we going to do?
00:53Before these terrible consequences,
00:58the violent deaths.
01:04First, we will have a government that creates a public and free education.
01:18Second, to hire teachers.
01:27As to dropping out,
01:37to remove educational barriers.
01:39What do I mean by educational barriers?
01:42We have millions of people who want to send their children to school.
01:47We have to work on infrastructure,
02:00and that becomes a barrier for education.
02:07Almost 90% of this infrastructure is completely destroyed,
02:14and this has to be fixed by the government.
02:27So to manage the problem of criminality,
02:32we will establish cameras to make sure that these areas,
02:38these educational areas, are safe for children to monitor them.
02:44So we will get rid of violence in education.
02:51Now, the candidate Daniel Novoa has one minute to answer the question,
02:58and to answer what Luisa said.
03:09We have reopened schools that were abandoned.
03:14We have also built new schools that we have handed over in the last 15 months.
03:19But there is something that has not been discussed.
03:22Why are children being allowed to go to school?
03:27Why are we ending the future of children?
03:30It is because of the blessed drug table of the Corregido.
03:34With this, this ended the dreams of thousands of children
03:46and gave pain to mothers of families.
03:49What is your plan to solve this?
03:54Candidate has one minute and 30 seconds to answer this.
04:00No, Novoa, do not lie.
04:03This is your ministry.
04:06All these children are of the educational system.
04:09This rate of violence is in your government.
04:16We need to get our children back to school.
04:22The parents are asking to solve the problem of infrastructure.
04:28What are we going to do to get our children back to school?
04:33And regarding the table of drugs,
04:37these numbers do not match what you are saying.
04:47This is a problem of public education.
04:52We need to work on giving food to children in school,
04:58to work on our uniforms.
05:11So we will work on economy so the parents will have some money
05:16to send their children to school.
05:22Now it's the turn of the candidate Daniel Novoa to answer this.
05:44In 2024, we reduced these numbers.
05:52Candidate has one minute to answer this second question.
05:56Novoa, do not lie.
05:59These are official data.
06:02Almost 90% of the educational infrastructure is in a terrible state.
06:08This proves that the infrastructure is in a terrible condition.
06:13So I invite you to tell the difference,
06:17I invite you to tell the difference,
06:20to see the numbers that I am giving you.
06:30It's important to be clear.
06:33Let's be clear.
06:34We need a government that is present in this kind of matters.
06:48Now it's the turn of the candidate Daniel Novoa.
07:02So, what measures would you like to implement
07:06to improve the quality of public education,
07:09to reduce school dissertion,
07:12and to combat the influence of delinquent groups?
07:17What measures would you establish to improve the quality of education,
07:21to reduce school dropouts,
07:24and to reduce the influence of criminality in children?
07:38This table of drugs is what has destroyed thousands of these measures.
07:48We will give the children the school breakfast that they deserve.
07:59We are fighting against corruption.
08:18We have delivered 100 scholarships for young people,
08:24and we also have an income for these children.
08:33We have delivered 100 scholarships for young people,
08:37and we also have an income for these children.
08:48We are working on the infrastructural schools,
08:52so these young people will have the opportunity to access higher education.
09:02So we will set exams so they can enter directly.
09:08So we will set exams so they can enter directly.
09:24We will deliver 100,000 scholarships for something.
09:37They need to learn English, especially because it's so important for the world,
09:44so they can have a better life in the future.
09:51Candidate, now you have one minute.
09:59Now it will be good.
10:03So they can send their children to school.
10:15Did you fulfill your promises?
10:1970,000 children drop out of school.
10:25They are losing their present and their future in the hope for a better day.
10:31Look at the camera.
10:33Look to the eyes of the children and parents of Ecuador who are living this pain,
10:39and tell them, why have you not accomplished what you promised months ago?
10:47Why should they believe you now?
10:51You have 30 seconds to answer this.
10:55The parents of our children have seen what we have done.
11:00We have changed the lives of thousands of children in Esmeralda,
11:05Santo Domingo the same way, parts of Guaya, the Pichincha, that's why.
11:10You have delivered those areas to criminality, and we have recovered those areas.
11:16We are educating our young people.
11:19We are giving security to our teachers.
11:23In the last two months, we have given positions to teachers,
11:32and we have done something that exceeds your time.
11:37We paid to the community teachers.
11:41Those are teachers that work in the most remote and poor areas of the country.
11:47Those community teachers that fought for years and even died,
11:53their children are receiving those benefits.
11:56We are paying that historic debt.
11:59We paid more than $30 million for those community teachers.
12:05That is the new Ecuador.
12:08The new Ecuador fulfills its promises.
12:12The new Ecuador moves forward, not backwards.
12:18Candidate Luisa Gonzalez, you have your second interpellation in 30 seconds.
12:23Novoano, you speak of Esmeralda, 34 homicides in 2024, and today, 64.
12:35Now I ask, 7 million poor people that you charge for the fixing of the classrooms,
12:44can you think less of your family business as the school breakfast
12:49and think more about the necessity of the Ecuadorians?
12:53Novoa, you have one minute for your answer.
13:00The lies are easily discovered, and we can check on this,
13:05and you can prove that none of the Novoas are related to the school breakfast.
13:17There are thousands of members of the solidarity community
13:22that we pay exclusively for the school breakfast.
13:27That is an improvement in the last years.
13:31We removed corruption from the schools and gave that school breakfast to the people.
13:40Of course, we need a budget that we have improved with dollars.
13:49Not Ecuador dollars, but dollars.
13:52Luisa is de-dollarizing the country.
14:00Now we will go to the section of closed questions.