Leftist economist Rafael Correa, who calls himself a friend of Venezuela’s anti-U.S. leader Hugo Chavez, officially was declared president-elect on Monday by Ecuador’s top electoral court.

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal announced that with all the ballots from the Nov. 26 runoff counted, Correa received more than 3.5 million votes, or 57 percent, compared with 2.7 million and 43 percent for banana tycoon Alvaro Noboa.