Car horns in Quito blazed in celebration on Sunday as a partial vote count suggested banana empire heir Daniel Noboa, 35, could become the youngest-ever president of violence-riddled Ecuador.
Ecuadorans voted for 10 hours Sunday with no reports of violence in a country gripped by a bloody drug war and a rash of political assassinations that cut short the bid of a popular candidate.
"It is a critical election," Freddy Escobar, a popular 49-year-old singer, told AFP in a voting line, citing crime as his main worry."I am voting in fear, not knowing what will happen." "Today we win," Noboa shouted as he pumped his fist in the air after voting in the coastal town of Olon, where he lives.- Drug violence -
And the bloodbath has spilled into the streets, with gangs dangling headless corpses from city bridges and detonating car bombs outside police stations in a show of force. Noboa is the son of one of Ecuador's richest men, who himself has five failed presidential bids to his name.
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