The president-elect of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, is expected to start his mandate on November 20, as announced, and the outgoing president, Guillermo Lasso, invited him to begin the transition. 

Noboa, to turn 36 years old, is about to become the president of a strongly polarized country. 

The leader of the National Democratic Action (ADN) defines himself as centre-left and promised to "build a new Ecuador" focused on the youth and the most neglected sectors.   He had almost recently arrived in politics and with a shallow profile until the first electoral round in August, Noboa won the October 15 ballot against the candidate of Correism Luisa Gonzalez, who, despite an intense campaign and the support of the movement of former President Rafael Correa, did not get most of the votes. Daniel Noboa, who had come second in the first round with 23.47% of the votes, obtained this Sunday 51.9%. Gonzalez, a 45-year-old lawyer and former Correa's government official, had won in August with 33.61%. But last Sunday 15, she was left out of the race in a tight election in which she obtained 48% of the votes. 

Noboa does not have a substantial support block in Parliament - where the first minority is Correa's Citizen Revolution, with 54 of the 137 seats - and will have to reach agreements with other sectors.  The ADN alliance has 14 legislators, far from the 70 votes needed to pass laws and resolutions and even farther from the 91 of the qualified majority. 

President Lasso, a former banker, is now leaving the Government after barely two and a half years in office because, in May of this year, he was cornered by an impeachment trial initiated by the opposition in the Parliament - for an alleged corruption case that was not proven- he decided to close the Parliament and call for early elections, in a constitutional mechanism known here as "cross death" and which until now had never been put into practice. 

According to political analysts, the president must assemble a strong working team with figures showing experience and qualifications. Although there were no official announcements, the local media are already slipping some names that could be part of the future cabinet. 

Only a few names are beginning to be mentioned for the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Communication, Agriculture, and Production, which had already been leaked during the campaign. 

They are men and women with political and, in some cases, business careers, primarily known in the political world.