Voters will choose between eight candidates, who face the challenges of surging crime across the South American country and a struggling economy.
The election was called after President Guillermo Lasso, a conservative former banker, dissolved the National Assembly by decree in May to avoid being impeached over allegations that he failed to intervene to end a faulty contract between the state-owned oil transport company and a private tanker company. He decided not to run in the special election.
Trailing González, the only female presidential candidate, were millionaire Jan Topic, whose promise of heavy-handed tactics against criminals earned him the nickname “Ecuadorian Rambo" and Otto Sonnenholzner, who led part of the country’s response to the pandemic while serving as the third vice president during the administration of President Lenín Moreno.
If needed, a runoff election would take place on October 15. The winner will govern only for the remainder of Lasso’s unfinished term, meaning less than two years. That same day, Topic's supporters were bused to a campaign rally at the convention centre in Guayaquil. They left purses and backpacks in the buses and entered through makeshift gates manned by private security guards.
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