Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa claimed, without evidence, that the first round of the country’s presidential race was rife with “irregularities” after he made it to the second round vote in April with a slim lead,

The president of violence-hit Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, claimed his razor-thin lead Monday in first-round voting as a win, despite a stronger-than-expected showing by his leftist challenger Luisa Gonzalez.

The Latin American country’s incumbent center-right leader Daniel Noboa faces an April run-off vote against left-wing challenger Luisa González.

The two candidates vying for Ecuador’s presidency in a second-round run-off never campaigned in Cochapamba. Their faces are nowhere to be seen in this remote Indigenous community in the Ecuadorian highlands.