Luisa González, the candidate of the Citizen Revolution who will have Correa as an advisor

"Mother, animalist and athlete" are the words with which Luisa González, the candidate for the presidency of Ecuador for the Citizen Revolution (RC), chose to define herself on her networks and on her personal website, the force that, according to all polls, He will remain with first place in the elections, although that will most likely not be enough to avoid a second round.

Born in Quito in November 1977, but living in Manabí, González is a lawyer with a master's degree in International Economics and Development from the Complutense University of Madrid, and held various positions during the presidency of Rafael Correa, including head of the Ministry of Labor.

González has a past in the Social Christian Party (PSC), for which she was a candidate for the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) in 2007, but later embraced the cause of correísmo and was one of the leaders closest to the then president.

In 2021, she won a legislative seat for Manabí on behalf of Unión por la Esperanza, the alliance that RC hegemonized, and after President Guillermo Lasso dissolved Parliament and called early elections, on June 10, she was elected presidential candidate after ex-vice Jorge Glas rejected that application.

Mother of two daughters, González seeks to become the first female president of Ecuador.