The presidential debate between Luisa González, candidate of Citizens’ Revolution Movement and Daniel Noboa, President and candidate of National Democratic Action, marks the beginning of the electoral campaign for the second round of elections in the Latin American country. teleSUR
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00:00Now, the candidate, Gonzalez, has 25 seconds to ask the closed questions.
00:20In this same space, you promised to Ecuadorians that all the young people graduating from
00:28high school will access higher education.
00:34So how do you explain that there are thousands of young people that don't have access to
00:40higher education?
00:41No.
00:42Now, you have to explain your answer.
00:50We have given the opportunity to more than 180,000 young people.
00:58Most of them are women.
01:02Some of them are single mothers that were in a really vulnerable position to get a better
01:09future because they didn't have someone to take care of their children.
01:17So at the same time, we gave them scholarships, and we gave them centers for them to leave
01:23their children while they study.
01:27So this is what we established, the opportunity for two people to have a better future.
01:37We have fulfilled our promises, and we will keep fulfilling them.
01:42And in the next four years, we will increase the number of scholarships, and we will give
01:46opportunities to young entrepreneurs.
01:50Novoa, do not lie.
01:55In this space, you said that all the young people graduating from high school will access
02:05higher education, and more than 50,000 were out of the higher education system.
02:15So if this is not enough, are you stealing?
02:24Clearly not.
02:30That happened 10 years ago when you left a destroyed country, and young, you keep attacking
02:39all the people that want to get a better future.
02:44We are definitely going to give the opportunity to every young people to get a better future.
02:51We are going to give scholarships to single mothers without no other opportunities.
02:58So we want also higher education for elder people who want to have a higher education.
03:11And we will also apply a system of residences throughout the country to take advantage of
03:17the infrastructure.
03:18And also, we will give you a scholarship so you can learn economy.
03:24So we have finished the first axis of this debate.