President EcuadorDaniel NoboaHe took office this Thursday, replacing outgoing president Guillermo Lasso. Four ministers still need to be appointed, including two key ministries for management: Internal Affairs and Economy and Finance.
After assuming the presidency at an inauguration ceremony held in the National Assembly (Parliament), Noboa appointed sixteen ministers and He dropped four wallets into the air: Internal Affairs, Economy and Finance, Women and Human Rights and Telecommunications and Information Society.
The first two (Home Affairs and Economy) contain the biggest challenges facing Noboa as he takes the reins of a country going through the worst wave of criminal violence, linked to drug trafficking and organized crime mafias, and facing an “alarming” economic crisis. This is the case, as he described in previous weeks, due to the increasing budget deficit. The Ministry of Internal Affairs was temporarily handed over to Government Minister Mónica Palencia; The Minister of Economy first appointed the young economist Sariha Moya as the Secretary General of Strategic Planning.
On the eve of his inauguration, Noboa said he hopes to have a full cabinet by Sunday that has so far stood out in terms of equality (eight women and eight men). especially due to the youth of some of its membersThis is appropriate for the 35th anniversary of his presidency.
“Youth is synonymous with strength”
Noboa, son of Álvaro Noboa, the boss of the banana industry and five-time presidential candidate, upon taking office, Youngest president in Ecuador’s democratic history and he was also the youngest in Latin America, something he also wanted to convey to his cabinet. “Many people believe that youth is synonymous with purity; for me, youth is synonymous with strength, the power to overcome the challenges imposed on us, because that is what Ecuador needs,” Noboa said in his shorter first speech as president. It was a ten-minute meeting based on an invitation to national reconciliation. “I have always been a man of few words, but I have always been a young man of action, like the majority of Ecuadorian men and women; all they want is an opportunity.” his old ways will fail.
Noboa asked citizens to unite and leave old political plans in the past, move the country forward and face major challenges such as unemployment and rising violence.
The head of state claimed that his family had been subjected to political pressure in the past, but “the cycle of revenge must be broken”. He insisted that it was a “pro-Ecuador” and “not against anything” project, because there is a ceiling for those “against” and infinity for those “for”.
urgent reforms
Among the first measures announced by Noboa are the following: Declaring a state of emergency to urgently consider the tax and electricity reform in the Parliament It is trying to solve the employment and energy problems inherited from its predecessor with daily planned outages due to production shortages in hydroelectric power plants.
While he attended the ceremony accompanied by his wife, model and phenomenon Lavinia Valbonesi, and their two children, his mother, Dr. There was also much of his family, such as Annabella Azín. He also had a political career as a member of parliament and parliament.
The only head of state present at the ceremony was leftist Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s president, and Noboa later held a bilateral meeting to discuss the Colombian president’s request to activate border control on the road axis connecting both countries. Pacific coast. The two leaders also talked about the new dynamics of drug trafficking and organized crime and the need for Amazon countries to take measures in this regard. recommendation against deforestation We are attending the World Climate Change Summit (COP28).
Cold relationship with the vice president
Noboa’s first day in office also revealed a new chapter of the apparent distance he has maintained since the election campaign with his vice president, Verónica Abad, who did not attend the official lunch at the presidential palace this Thursday and went to have lunch with him. Vendors in Quito market.
Noboa will have a short period of time, like one and a half years To force new general elections by completing the 2021-2025 period, which Lasso interrupted by applying the ‘cross death’ practice in which he dissolved the Parliament last May, with the opposition majority during the period when he wanted to dismiss him.