*Pres. debate addressed candidates’ proposals to tackled 5 pressing society issues
*Candidate Gonzalez listed shortcomings of Noboa´s govt.
*Pres. candidate Gonzalez touched on her economic proposals
*Pres. candidate Noboa reaffirmed plan to reinstate foreign military bases
*Candidate Gonzalez questioned Noboa on family's millionaire tax debt
*Legality of Noboa´s election campaign was challenged in presidential debate
*Candidate Gonzalez listed shortcomings of Noboa´s govt.
*Pres. candidate Gonzalez touched on her economic proposals
*Pres. candidate Noboa reaffirmed plan to reinstate foreign military bases
*Candidate Gonzalez questioned Noboa on family's millionaire tax debt
*Legality of Noboa´s election campaign was challenged in presidential debate
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00:00The Ecuadorian presidential debate was held Sunday, March 23rd in the event.
00:16The candidate for Citizens' Revolution and the President nominee, Daniel Novoa, presented
00:21their proposals for the run of election next April 13th.
00:25Gabriela Mena provides further information.
00:30In Ecuador, the city of where polymedia outlets were broadcasting looked like this.
00:35There, they were to disseminate the presidential debate for the run of elections.
00:39Hundreds of supporters of the nominee for the Citizens' Revolution, Luisa González,
00:43supported her by raising flags, wearing T-shirts with slogans, and blowing bubbles.
00:48At all times, they shouted the candidate's name.
00:50Luisa Presidenta! Luisa Presidenta!
00:54At 8 p.m. on Sunday, March 23rd, the presidential debate began.
00:59The presidential debate started at 8 p.m. on Sunday, March 23rd.
01:03Candidates have tackled five main concerning issues, including education, health and security.
01:07The first to speak was candidate Luisa González, who reiterated President nominee Daniel Novoa
01:12all the time that he should stop lying to the country during his speeches.
01:17Shall you continue lying to the Ecuadorian people?
01:20Do we Ecuadorians think that you still lack time for making things happen?
01:24When pigs fly.
01:25González highlighted the shortcomings of the president candidate Daniel Novoa.
01:33First, she mentioned that children, teenagers and youngsters lack qualities to enter the public education system.
01:39Then, she questioned that if he had not fulfilled his campaign proposals in 15 months in office,
01:45who guaranteed that now he would comply with them?
01:48She further referred to the illegalities committed by Novoa,
01:51as he consented officers to break into the Mexican embassy to arrest the former vice president Jorge Blas.
01:57Therefore, Ecuador had lost the support of the international community, she argued,
02:02granting to recover global trust in case she won elections.
02:06What's the current trend of foreign investment in Ecuador?
02:12It is the worst in the past 10 years.
02:15Nobody wants to come to a country where the president violates international treaties,
02:19laws and the constitution itself.
02:22And this directly impacts employment, so that you have caused economic domestic crises.
02:27Candidate Luisa González stated that she will lower the VAT, attract energy investments
02:33and that poly banking will be for development, with low interest rate credits.
02:38In addition, she affirmed at all times that the Citizens' Revolution Party won't make changes in dollarization.
02:44She said so in response to Novoa's proposal of changing the transactional currency.
02:49Despite the fact that it is the Citizens' Revolution who seeks to make the dollar official from the National Assembly.
02:56Ecuadorian President and candidate Daniel Novoa reaffirmed to reinstate foreign military bases in the country to control drug trafficking.
03:07In addition, we'll always maintain our respect for our armed forces.
03:15The national police and all state officials who today are working hard for this new Ecuador.
03:21González questioned Novoa on whether he will collect the millionaire debt of $94 million in taxes from his family and he answered no.
03:32However, this is not a new scenario because Novoa has awarded several state businesses to his family on his term.
03:40Subsidies to Petro Novoa, school breakfast to your aunt, ethanol to your aunt,
03:46power outages and job losses, economic impact on the Esmeralda's population and the environment,
03:53200,000 layoffs, giving the Sasha oil field as a gift, which was prevented by citizens' actions,
04:01repelling public investments, you have brought about all these problems in just a single year.
04:08The presidential debate had lasted around two hours and prior to the closing,
04:12the president candidate was questioned about not entrusting the presidency to the Vice President Veronica Abad
04:18during his electoral campaign as abided by law, an issue that Novoa evaded.
04:24According to the law, Novoa could not participate in the presidential debate being both a president and a candidate.
04:30However, he did it.