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The results were widely hailed, alongside the rejection of all constitutional referendum questions, as a rebuke of President Guillermo Lasso, who had won the 2021 Ecuadorian general election.[2][3] They were also seen as a major victory for leftist politician and former President Rafael Correa, whose Citizen Revolution Movement party won nearly every key race, including the mayoral races in both Quito and Guayaquil, with this last city having been a longtime stronghold of the right (and, most specifically, the Social Christian Party) until then.[2][3][4]
As a result of the generally increased tension, several politicians were directly attacked in the run-up to the election, with two of them being murdered:[6][8][9] on 21 January 2023, Julio César Farachio, the Popular Unity Movement's candidate for mayor in the city of Salinas, was shot and killed while hosting an electoral rally;[5][10] on 4 February, Omar Menéndez, the Citizen Revolution Movement's candidate for mayor in Puerto López, and one of his collaborators were shot dead by two unidentified men just a few hours before the ballots opened.[6][8][9][11] Menéndez himself went on to win the election posthumously, although he was set to be replaced by another candidate from the same party.[6][7][8]
