National Democratic Action Acción Democrática Nacional | |
|---|---|
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| Abbreviation | ADN |
| President | Daniel Noboa |
| General Secretary | Mishel Mancheno |
| Spokesperson | Valentina Centeno |
| Founder | Daniel Noboa |
| Founded | 20 November 2021 |
| Legalised | 23 May 2024 |
| Preceded by | Institutional Renewal Party of National Action Forward Ecuadorian Forward Party [es] |
| Headquarters | Guayaquil, Ecuador |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-right[3] toright-wing[4] |
| Alliance members | People, Equality and Democracy MOVER |
| Colours | Purple Yellow |
| Slogan | The New Ecuador Solves |
| National Assembly | 66 / 151 |
| Prefects | 1 / 23 |
| Mayors | 1 / 222 |
| Andean Parliament | 3 / 5 |
| Website | |
| adn-ecuador | |
TheNational Democratic Action (Spanish:Acción Democrática Nacional,ADN) is apolitical alliance and movement inEcuador created to support the candidacy ofDaniel Noboa in the2023 presidential election.
Daniel Noboa announced his presidential candidacy in May 2023 following theEcuadorian political crisis. He received the support of thePeople, Equality and Democracy (PID) andMOVER parties, which became members of the ADN.[5] In the following months, Noboa organized this movement, which for a long time did not receive legal status.[6][7] Noboa's running mate wasconservative entrepreneurVerónica Abad Rojas, fromCuenca.[8][9]
The relation of this political platform with former presidentLenín Moreno is noteworthy, as PID was founded and is presided by Arturo Moreno Encalada, cousin of the former politician,[10] 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 waspresident of Ecuador.[11]
In the2023 presidential election, Noboa took second place in the first round of voting on August 12,[12] before winning the runoff round (and thereby the presidency) on October 15.[13][14]Valentina Centeno is party leader at theNational Assembly.[15][16]
The coalition is composed of the following parties:
| Party | Abbr. | Leader | Ideology | Membership | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People, Equality and Democracy Pueblo, Igualdad y Democracia | PID | Arturo Moreno | Big tent | since 2023 | |
| MOVER MOVER | MOVER | René Espín | Neoliberalism | since 2023 | |
| Election | Party candidate | Votes | % | Votes | % | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First round | Second round | |||||
| 2023 | Daniel Noboa | 2,315,296 | 23.47% | 5,251,695 | 51.83% | Elected Y |
| 2025 | 4,527,428 | 44.17% | 5,870,618 | 55.62% | ElectedY | |
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Valentina Centeno | 1,219,254 | 14.56 | 11 / 116 | New |
| 2025 | Daniel Noboa | 3,948,392 | 43.34 | 66 / 151 |  55 |
In taking second place, Noboa, of the conservative 'National Democratic Action', has outperformed voting forecasts.
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.[Unlike in past elections, when the anti-Correism movement was fragmented, Daniel Noboa managed to unite that space and position himself as the hegemonic political option of the conservative-liberal and anti-Correism camp.]
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.
