Ecuador’s presidential poll would proceed to a second round runoff as no candidate seems to be able to win outright after more than 90 per cent of the vote have been counted.
With 92.82 per cent of the vote counted so far, the incumbent president and candidate of the National Democratic Action, Daniel Noboa, is leading with 44.5 per cent.
This is according to figures of the National Electoral Council released on Monday, revealing that Noboa is closely followed by Luisa Gonzalez, the candidate of the Citizen Revolution Movement, who has garnered 43.86 per cent of the vote.
According to the report, in third place was Leonidas Iza, the candidate of the Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement, with 5.04 per cent.
In reference to Ecuador’s Constitution, a candidate is elected president in the first round if he/she secures either more than 50 per cent of the votes, or at least 40 per cent of the votes while leading the runner-up by more than 10 percentage points.
Ecuadorans went to the polls on Sunday to elect a president, a vice president, 151 members of the National Assembly and five members of the Andean Parliament.
