(24 May 2025)
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Quito, Ecuador – 24 May 2025
1. President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa arriving at the National Assembly to be sworn in as president
2. Noboa, Vice President María Jose Pinto, and National Assembly President Niels Olsen standing
3. Olsen placing presidential sash on Noboa
4. Noboa, wearing the sash, cheered by the assembly
5. Noboa holding hands with Olsen, greeting attendees
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Daniel Noboa, President of Ecuador:
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"Today, we are at the gates of four years of progress. There will be four years where previously forgotten dreams will become realities. We will focus on public investment to create jobs, we will dedicate our efforts to youth work, promoting jobs through public works."
7. Wide of Noboa speaking
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Daniel Noboa, President of Ecuador:
"And there will be no truce against crime; the progressive reduction of homicides will be a non-negotiable goal. We will attack the criminal economies of this country, and we will put an end to them."
9. Noboa raising his arms together with Pinto and Olsen
10. Noboa greeting international guests
11. Noboa leaving National Assembly
STORYLINE:
Ecuador’s re-elected President Daniel Noboa was sworn in on Saturday for a four-year term at a ceremony in the capital of Quito.
President of the National Assembly Niels Olsen took Noboa’s oath of office and placed a presidential sash on him, marking the start of a new term that will last until May 2029.
"There will be four years where previously forgotten dreams will become realities," Noboa said during his inaugural speech.
Colombia President Gustavo Petro and Peru President Dina Boluarte, as well as the U.S. Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., attended the inauguration.
One of the main challenges for the president will be to confront violence and unemployment in his second term.
The 37-year-old conservative millionaire was reelected on April 13, after winning over the left-wing opposition, Luisa González, and obtained with his National Democratic Action (ADN) movement the necessary seats and the support of other sectors to become the main political force in the Assembly.
One of the President’s key challenges is keeping the majority support he currently holds in parliament. That support is crucial to advancing his legislative agenda, including a recent urgent economic bill aimed at fighting crime, which has already faced opposition.
Ecuador is a country besieged by violence, placed at the top of the most dangerous countries in the region, with nearly 8,000 violent deaths by the end of 2024 and with crime on the rise in 2025.
Only 33% of Ecuadorians are fully employed, according to official statistics at the end of last year, while the rest are in the informal sector.
Noboa came to power for the first time in November 2023, at the age of 35, with little political experience.
He burst surprisingly onto the electoral chessboard and was elected to complete the term of his predecessor, Guillermo Lasso (2021-2023), who dissolved the Assembly and stopped an impeachment trial against him.
AP Video by Cesar Olmos
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