World: With more than 90 per cent of the ballots counted in the Ecuador election, Noboa had polled 44.3 per cent and rival Luisa Gonzalez 43.8 per cent, official results showed.

Ecuador election: President Noboa clings to narrow lead as runoff looms

Daniel Noboa, business heir, and now Ecuador's youngest-ever president-elect has vowed to "restore peace" to the drug gang war-ravaged South American country. "Tomorrow we start work for this new Ecuador, we start working to rebuild a country seriously battered by violence, by corruption and by hate," he told supporters during an address in the seaside town of Olon.

Explained | Who is Daniel Noboa? Ecuador's youngest president-elect is heir to banana empire

Ecuadoreans will choose their next president on Sunday, weighing pledges to improve the economy and control a spiralling security situation from a businessman who is heir to a banana fortune and a leftist who would be the country's first woman leader.

Ecuadoreans weigh economic, security pledges in presidential ballot

The US has announced a $5 million reward for information leading to the criminals who carried out the assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in August.

US offers $5 million reward for information related to Ecuador election assassination

Ecuadoreans on Sunday (August 20) began voting in the presidential election. The eight presidential hopefuls of the South American nation have pledged to fight huge spurt in crime, which the current government blames on drug gangs, and improve the struggling economy.

Ecuador election: Polling begins as spiraling violence, economic troubles bother voters

With just a week left for the August 20 election in Ecuador, the running mate of slain candidate Fernando Villavicencio will run for president in his place, the Construye party said on Saturday (August 12).

Ecuador poll: Running mate of slain candidate Fernando Villavicencio to run for president

Ecuador's National Assembly on Saturday evening elected a representative of the Pachakutik indigenous political party as its president for the next two years, with the support of allies of conservative President-elect Guillermo Lasso.

Ecuador indigenous party wins National Assembly presidency, backed by Lasso

Ecuadorans will elect their next president on Sunday with voters choosing between a young, socialist protege of ex-leader Rafael Correa and a veteran conservative as the oil-rich country contends with an economic crisis aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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