Overview
- With nearly all votes counted, the No prevailed 61.6% on a Constituent Assembly, 60.5% on allowing foreign bases, 58.0% on ending party funding, and 53.4% on reducing legislators, according to the CNE.
- Voter participation exceeded 80% in a largely orderly process, electoral authorities said.
- President Daniel Noboa acknowledged the defeat and pledged to respect the result and continue governing “with the tools we have.”
- The ban on foreign military bases remains in force, halting prospects discussed for potential U.S. access to facilities in Manta and Salinas.
- Analysts called the result a significant political setback requiring a strategy reset, as Noboa also announced during voting the arrest in Europe of alleged Los Lobos leader “Pipo.”