Daniel Noboa stunned voters when, with only a brief stint as a lawmaker and no established political machinery, he outperformed several presidential candidates in a 2023 snap election and advanced to

Noboa has pledged to avoid a return of rolling blackouts of up to 14 hours per day that affected Ecuador during the latter half of 2024, caused by a regional drought that sapped the country's hydroelectric dams. He pleaded with Colombia's President Gustavo Petro - who he once called a "leftist snob" in an interview - to renew electricity imports.

Ecuadorean leftist Luisa Gonzalez says her plans to spend on social welfare and impose harsher penalties for criminals will work better than what she calls the ad-hoc policies of incumbent President Daniel Noboa,