When voting has no consequences, there is no incentive to participate. Venezuelans decided to abstain from regional and municipal elections.

If elections could eradicate corruption and solve the most pressing political and social problems, almost all Latin American countries would be developed.

If, in the October elections—when many provinces will renew deputies and senators—the government highlights the president during the campaign, the economic vote, in a year of growth, could work in its favor.

Elections legitimize governments, but behind them are the technical procedures without which no election can be considered democratic.

In the Andean country, a record level of party fragmentation has been made official: a total of 43 political parties have been authorized to run for the presidency in the upcoming elections.

As in any process of “democratic autocratization”, Noboa needs to mold the institutional context to his image and likeness as Chavez did in Venezuela, Correa in Ecuador, Bukele in El Salvador and Donald Trump in the United States.