Elections in Ecuador 2025, Live | Electoral schools in Ecuador close after a day without accidents

Electoral schools in Ecuador close with the participation of 83.7%

Now it is just waiting. Ecuador’s electoral colleges closed at five in the afternoon of this Sunday after a second round that passed without important accidents. Now it remains to wait at least three hours, which is the deadline that the estimates of the National Electoral Council (CNE) take a count of irreversible results. Participation in these elections was 83.76% of all voters forced to vote, according to the latest CNE report, three more points compared to the first round.

The hours preceding the end of the day were a outbreak of surveys that give a triumph adapted to one or the other of the candidates: Daniel Noboa, the current conservative president, and Luis González, of Correism.

The president, who goes for the ri -seation after a year and a half of government – said the failed mandate of Guillermo Lazo – will wait for the results to Oón, a coastal village of less than 5,000 inhabitants north -west of Guayaquil, where he has a luxurious residence. He does not want to repeat the flask of the first round of February, when he remained in Quito to celebrate a shaved victory and had to settle for a difference of only 17,000 votes on the left candidate. Luisa González, on the other hand, is already in the Ecuadorian capital.

The day of the elections passed “normally”, according to the summary that international observers did during the afternoon. Heraldo Muñoz, head of the Oas mission, previously recalled that voters should not be transported by anxiety and distrust of post -electoral polls. “You have to wait patiently until the last vote and do not trust the exit surveys, which are nothing but statistical estimates,” he said. Two polls authorized by the CNE have performed surveys, but the adequate result is expected that they will have little ability to anticipate.

It was, with everything, an atypical day. Ecuador has lived since January 2024, by decision of Noboa, in a situation of “internal armed conflict”. This implies the control of the police and military city and, from this Saturday, curfews between ten and five in the morning in seven provinces. González denounced at the time of the vote that the state of exceptional decreed by the president on the eve hits his electorate. “They decree an exceptional state when the political parties are in the computer centers that receive minutes. It is a way of not mobilizing,” Gonzalez complained after voting in Canuto, a small town in the coastal province of Manabí.