Quito, August 11 (RHC)-- The opposition party Citizen Revolution (RC, of ​​former President Rafael Correa) selected Luisa González this Saturday as its presidential candidate for the elections that will take place in 2025 in Ecuador.

González, a lawyer by profession and who was already RC's presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, will have economist Diego Borja as her running mate.  "We have Diego Borja as vice president and Luisa González as president," said the RC political bureau from the Voltaire Paladines Polo Coliseum, in the city of Guayaquil, in the southwest of the country.

González, who is 46 years old, won the first round in the early presidential elections of 2023, however, in the second round she lost to the current president Daniel Noboa, who was nominated by the right-wing alliance National Democratic Action (ADN).

During the national convention, the political group also announced the candidates for the National Assembly, both national, provincial and from abroad.  This same Saturday, President Noboa, 36 years old, announced his decision to accept the presidential candidacy for the ADN, in order to seek reelection in next year's elections.

"The search for justice has to be reinforced with a reelection; we have put all our hearts into this search for justice, all my desire, all my youth in that search for justice," said Noboa during a speech.