“No” to all four questions For the referendum held on Sunday in Ecuador at the initiative of President Daniel Noboa Obligation in the four questionsIncluding the proposal that proposed the establishment of a Constituent Assembly to draft a new constitution, with 60% scrutiny.
In the Constituent Assembly proposal, “No” maintains a broad advantage (61.50%) over “Yes” (38.50%), and the trend extends to other questions related to the possibility of establishing foreign military bases, where “No” has 59.94%, canceling public funding for political parties (57.59%) and reducing the number of Assembly members (53.15%).
Noboa, the referendum promoter, is following the progress of the vote count at a hotel in the municipality of Olón where he lives on the beach where he cast his vote early in the morning, while Luisa González, the former presidential candidate for Corísmo, the main opposition force that launched the “No” campaign, is following the vote count at the party headquarters in Quito.
Voting centers were open from 7:00 am (12:00 GMT) until 5:00 pm. (10 p.m.), on an election day that took place peacefully, without violence or major incidents, and 80% of the 13.9 million voters who were called to the polls participated.
Noboa proposed opening the process of creating a new constitution Which replaced the current Magna Carta, which was approved in 2008 on the initiative of former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017), who is the ideological opposite of the current president.
According to advocates of reform, the new constitution and The arrival of foreign military reinforcements It is necessary to combat the unprecedented escalation of insecurity and violence experienced by the Andean country, with expectations that it will consolidate itself at the top of Latin America in the homicide rate, at 52 per 100,000 inhabitants.
For its part, the Corista Citizens’ Revolution Movement, the main opposition force, together with indigenous organizations, led the campaign against the Constituent Assembly and other matters related to the referendum.
Thus, there have been ten referendums held in Ecuador over the past twenty years, most of them at the initiative of presidents in power to obtain popular support with the aim of implementing reforms that are part of their political project.
The Democratic meeting was held in A turbulent context of crime and insecurity They are being shot in Ecuador, which prompted President Noboa to declare an “internal armed conflict” in January 2024 to combat organized crime activity, whose gangs he classified as “terrorist” groups.
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