Daniel Noboa stunned voters in 2023 when he won a snap election for a 16-month presidency after only a brief stint as a lawmaker and with no established political machinery. No longer a political neophyte,

Figures released by Ecuador’s National Electoral Council showed Noboa receiving 55.8 percent of the vote with more than 92 percent of ballots counted, while leftist lawyer Luisa González earned 44 percent.