Two former lawmakers, leftist Luisa Gonzalez and business scion Daniel Noboa, will battle for Ecuador's presidency in an October run-off, after coming top in a first round of voting over the weekend.
, whose woes have caused a rise in unemployment and migration, were the top concerns among votes as they headed to the polls on Sunday.to bolster Ecuador's economy and bring back million-dollar social initiatives implemented by Correa - who has since been convicted of corruption - during his decade in power.
"Noboa has tried to sell himself as a businessman and a young technocrat. He showed it when he talked about how to manage hydroelectric dams ," said Espinosa. "If he can do that same exercise with the proposals of the candidates that will give his rhetoric much more meaning."
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