Noboa in a sentence

A combination picture shows Ecuadorean presidential candidates Luisa Gonzalez and Daniel Noboa attending an event, in Quito, Ecuador October 12, 2023.

Both Basabe and Tanca indicated that Noboa’s choice of cabinet members would be an opportunity for the president-elect to establish his administration as distinct from Lasso’s.

From eight candidates, Gonzalez took the most votes in the first round in August with 34 per cent, followed by Noboa with 23 per cent.

He believes that Noboa should avoid engaging with the National Assembly as much as possible, focusing instead on what he can do through executive action.

Noboa's political career began in 2021, when he earned a seat in the National Assembly and chaired its Economic Development Commission.

Noboa, the youngest of the candidates at just 35, has focused his campaign on job creation, tax incentives for new businesses and jail sentences for serious tax evaders.

Noboa was sworn in to office Thursday after defeating Luisa Gonzalez, a Correa mentee, in a runoff election Oct. 15. His term will run only through May 2025, which is what remained of Lasso's tenure.

Noboa, who will presumably take office in December, defines himself as a defender of free enterprise and with a vocation for social service.

Noboa will have just 14 months to govern, serving a truncated term from December this year until May 2025.

The scion of a powerful local business family, Noboa has crafted his campaign around the idea of attracting foreign investment and creating new work opportunities.

Though Noboa is not of the same party as Lasso, he is nonetheless part of the same traditional Ecuadorian oligarchy.

With nearly 80% of the votes counted, electoral officials say she has 33%, while her closest rival Daniel Noboa, a businessman, is on 24%.

Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa (in black) looks at a model of the new maximum security prison being built on his country’s Pacific coast.

Funding those and other police activities, Noboa has argued, will require a bump in income and closing the ITT fields would move the national balance sheet in the wrong direction.

Noboa also designated 22 criminal gangs to be “terrorist” organizations in the presidential decree.

President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency in January amid a spike in violence that saw armed men invade a TV station during a live broadcast.

President Noboa's emergency declaration responded to a wave of recent jail riots and escapes from prisons and other acts of violence blamed by authorities on criminal gangs.

She echoed concerns that the referendum has done more to bolster Noboa’s public image than to address the roots of crime in Ecuador.

Some of the measures approved imply changes to Ecuador’s constitution, but because they were previously endorsed by the Constitutional Court, Mr Noboa only needs to publish them in the official gazette to go into effect.

The killings in Manabi “remind us that the battle continues,” said Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa on the social media network X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday.