ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 18, 2023 / 18:00 pm
The bishops of Ecuador issued a statement Oct. 16 on X about the results of the presidential runoff election held Oct. 15 in which Daniel Noboa Azín became the new president, defeating rival candidate Luisa González.
Noboa, 35, represents the National Democratic Alliance and won with 52% of the vote. When he takes office on Dec. 25, he will become the youngest head of state in the history of the country.
The new president must fill the 2021–2025 presidential term after the current president, Guillermo Lasso, called for a special election in the midst of a political crisis caused by accusations of corruption against him and the trial to impeach him initiated in the National Assembly, the Ecuadorian legislative body.
In their statement titled “Building together the common good,” the Ecuadorian Bishops’ Conference noted that “what matters is the homeland.” The prelates asked elected officials to see “beyond their personal and partisan interests” and urged those who were not elected to refrain from “division and violence.”