Another blow for the left: Ecuador elects a conservative new president

American Thinker ^ | 10/16/2023 | Monica Showalter

[SeekAndFind]

First Australia and New Zealand over the weekend, and now that it's Monday, it's another bad day to wake up a leftist.

Over in Ecuador, where an assassination took out a conservative frontrunner to its presidential race just weeks before the vote, another rightwinger stepped up to the plate to openly and directly reject socialism -- and sure enough, got elected, 52.3-47.7.

According to the Financial Times:

Daniel Noboa has won Ecuador’s presidential election as the South American country battles an unprecedented crime wave and an ailing economy. Noboa, a centre-right former lawmaker, beat leftist rival Luisa González in a run-off election on Sunday, taking 52 per cent of the vote with 93 per cent counted. “Tomorrow your new president of the republic will get to work,” Noboa, who will take office in December, told supporters on Sunday night. Noboa campaigned on a market-friendly platform of youth employment and promoting foreign investment. The 35-year-old served a short stint as a lawmaker, from 2021 until May this year, and chaired the economic development commission in Congress. Before that he held management roles at Noboa Corp., the family business.

Obviously, the election was about ideas, not personalities, given the handicaps Noboa had as the son of a banana baron and a late entrant to the presidential race. The voters didn't care about those things, though, they just wanted to get rid of the socialism.

The Associated Press's account was snottier and more cynical than most, suggesting that no one would ever want to vote for such a candidate ... until they did:

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Daniel Noboa has managed to do what his father failed at five times: Getting elected as Ecuador’s president.

And Noboa did it Sunday on his first attempt, winning a runoff election against a leftist lawyer ...

[SeekAndFind]

Unlike Argentina, Ecuador has already dollarized its economy under a previous conservative wave. That has kept the country from going the way of Venezuela but it still has major problems, such as crime and the influence of Mexican cartels who took out the last conservative presidential candidate. (Notice that in his campaign-trail pictures, Noboa is wearing a bulletproof vest).

With crime that front and center, it means Noboa's going to need to go the route of El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, throwing them all in jail on the double just to make the place liveable. If Noboa can do that, his country will be in good shape and safe for free markets, growth, and prosperity.

[BobL]

“Obviously, the election was about ideas, not personalities, given the handicaps Noboa had as the son of a banana baron and a late entrant to the presidential race.”

INCREDIBLE - A guy like Trump in that he never had to worry about paying his bills STEPS UP and takes over for a guy who just got knocked off by the Neocons*. Now Ecuador will have a conservative government willing to bang heads against our Communist leaders.

(*no, I don’t have a link, but I wouldn’t put it past the Neocons, it’s their style)

[PeterPrinciple]

Noboa’s going to need to go the route of El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, throwing them all in jail on the double just to make the place liveable. If Noboa can do that,

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El Salvador did not do that on their own. It was Trump and our tax dollars..........................

It worked so well that Biden can’t take credit for it but did leave it alone.

[Bon of Babble]

I’d add the governor of Louisiana as well.

“Jeff Landry has won the race for Louisiana governor.

Landry secured the most votes in Saturday’s crowded gubernatorial race, surpassing 50% of the vote.”

[BigFreakinToad]

Seems everyone is wising up except us, well we do have a broken election system, so maybe the wise are not being counted.

[Vaduz]

Electing a conservative as a new president is a good move to stop the blood sucking socialists.