The National Democratic Action (Spanish: Acción Democrática Nacional, ADN) is a political alliance and movement in Ecuador created to support the candidacy of Daniel Noboa in the 2023 presidential election.
Daniel Noboa announced his presidential candidacy in May 2023 following the Ecuadorian political crisis. He received the support of the People, Equality and Democracy (PID) and MOVER parties, which became members of the ADN.[6] In the following months, Noboa organized this movement, which for a long time did not receive legal status.[7][8] Noboa's running mate was conservative entrepreneur Verónica Abad Rojas, from Cuenca.[9][10]
The relation of this political platform with former president Lenín Moreno is noteworthy, as PID was founded and is presided by Arturo Moreno Encalada, cousin of the former politician,[11] and MOVER was the ruling party during much of Moreno administration when it was still PAIS Alliance, with Moreno serving as the president of PAIS when he was president of Ecuador.[12]
In the 2023 presidential election, Noboa took second place in the first round of voting on August 12,[13] before winning the runoff round (and thereby the presidency) on October 15.[14][15] Valentina Centeno is party leader at the National Assembly.[16][17]
The coalition is composed of the following parties:
In taking second place, Noboa, of the conservative 'National Democratic Action', has outperformed voting forecasts.
In Ecuador, Daniel Noboa of the libertarian and pro-business Acción Democrática Nacional political party, became to youngest person to be elected president in Ecuador at the age of only 35.
A diferencia de las elecciones del pasado, en las que el anticorreísmo estaba fragmentado, Daniel Noboa logró agrupar ese espacio y posicionarse como la opción política hegemónica del campo liberal-conservador y anticorreísta.
In November 2023, President Daniel Noboa, the head of the center-right National Democratic Action (ADN) political coalition, took office to complete the term of his predecessor, Guillermo Lasso (2021-2023), after winning an October runoff vote. Lasso, who called the elections but did not run, had pushed for market-friendly political and economic reforms but faced opposition from Indigenous movements and a legislature dominated by leftist parties that had repeatedly tried to impeach him.
Gonzalez will compete with center-right National Democratic Action candidate Daniel Noboa, who unexpectedly came in second place in August after securing 23.4% of the vote.
He ran under the National Democratic Action ticket, a new centre-right party that he founded with other dissidents from United Ecuadorian.
On one side is left-wing politician Luisa Gonzalez from the camp of former president Rafael Correa, who was convicted of corruption, and on the other is banana farmer Daniel Noboa of the center-right National Democratic Action alliance, who will turn 36 in November. He is the heir to his father Alvaro Noboa's business empire.
See table "Cuadro general de Fuerzas políticas en el gobierno (América Latina)".
With 88.42 percent of the votes counted as of 7:40 p.m. local time (0040 GMT), Noboa, from the right-wing National Democratic Action alliance, had obtained 52.29 percent of the valid votes compared to 47.71 percent for his rival, Luisa Gonzalez from the Citizen Revolution movement led by ex-president Rafael Correa.
Luisa González of the left-wing Citizens Revolution Movement party (Movimiento Revolución Ciudadana, RC) emerged victorious in the first round with 33.5 per cent of the votes, while Daniel Noboa of the right-wing National Democratic Action Alliance (Acción Democrática Nacional, ADN) secured 23.66 per cent of the votes.