Mexican President Sheinbaum Expresses Hope for a Female President in Ecuador

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. X/ @radioplatinumec

February 10, 2025 Hour: 1:43 pm

Partial results indicate that Ecuadorian elections will be decided in a runoff on April 13, once again pitting Noboa against Gonzalez.

On Monday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated that she hopes Ecuador will have a female president, referring to Sunday’s elections in which the current President, Daniel Noboa, and leftist candidate Luisa Gonzalez advanced to the second round.

“I hope that soon in Ecuador, they will shout ‘Presidenta’ with an ‘A’. I hope that relations between Mexico and Ecuador can be restored quickly,” she said during her morning press conference.

Currently, with 92% of the ballots counted, Noboa holds a 0.48 percentage point lead, with 44.31% of the valid votes, compared to 43.83% for Gonzalez, the candidate of the Citizen Revolution (RC), the movement whose historical leader is former President Rafael Correa (2007–2017).

Mexico severed diplomatic relations with Ecuador and filed a lawsuit against the Andean country before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in April 2024.

Ecuador’s leftist presidential candidate, Luisa Gonzalez, came joint first in a “technical tie” with President Daniel Noboa in yesterday’s presidential elections. The two will head to a second round in April amid a climate of persecution and dirty tricks used against the left. pic.twitter.com/E2B1iDp6Ld
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This occurred after Ecuadorian police forces, under orders from President Noboa, raided the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest Jorge Glas, former vice president of the Correa administration.

In 2023, Gonzalez and Sheinbaum met in Mexico City shortly before the Mexican politician became the candidate for the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) in the 2024 presidential elections.

Partial results indicate that Ecuador’s presidential elections will be decided in a runoff on Sunday, April 13, once again pitting Noboa against Gonzalez, who previously faced off in the runoff of the 2023 extraordinary elections.