Daniel Noboa has been re-elected as president of Ecuador with a margin that has surprised most observers. Just weeks before the April 13 runoff, poll

Defying predictions and expectations, incumbent Daniel Noboa won Ecuador’s presidential election with a clear lead, securing his power at a time when the right on the South American continent looks towards US President Donald Trump as a model to emulate.

Ecuador’s market-friendly President Daniel Noboa has won re-election, seeing off leftist rival Luisa González in a run-off vote on Sunday. Noboa, the 37-year-old son of a billionaire banana magnate, won 55.8 per cent of the vote to González’s 44.4 per cent, with 90 per cent of the vote counted.