Contrasting Personalities With both candidates in the runoff theoretically representing center-left positions, the campaign seems likely to be dominated by their contrasting personalities and the traditional competition between the mountain capital of Quito and the tropical city of Guayaquil.

It probably makes sense for Ecuador to have a foreign coach - it is easier for an outsider to stand aloof from tensions between the two major cities, the port of Guayaquil and the mountain capital of Quito.