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.

In a context of normalized corruption and violence, Ecuador preferred stability, albeit mediocre, rather than risk the unknown.

No scenario is more detrimental to the pursuit of economic equity, social justice, human rights, and the strengthening of democracy in Brazil than the potential return of the far right to power.