“It is time then to honor dreams, hopes, and the rights of all Ecuadorians,” says the bishops of Ecuador, after the victory of the reelected president Daniel Noboa, of the right -wing party National Democratic Action (DNA) over the leftist candidate Luisa González, of Citizen Revolution, close to former president Rafael Correa.
After highlighting that millions have been millions – 83.7 % of skilled voters according to the National Electoral Council (CNE) – the prelates called “the two political forces in ballot and their leaders, not to yield to the temptation of the violence of words or acts to generate an environment of anxiety and division.”
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“Only the civic voice of the polls can decide the future of the country. The virtue of democracy is precisely to accept the results with humility and courage,” they stressed in a communication.
After highlighting the importance of working for peace in the country, Ecuadorian bishops asked “all social and political forces to join forces to work, together with the winners, in the construction of Ecuador that has mobilized today to the entire country.”
According to CNE, Noboa obtained 55.65%; while González received 44.35%. According CNN in SpanishThe candidate said at a press conference that she will not recognize the results.
Noboa will begin on May 24 its first complete government of 4 years. The first period began on November 23, 2023, after winning the elections with which the presidency of Guillermo Lasso, which had dissolved the National Assembly.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.