 During the prelude to the 2017 presidential elections, she was again selected as the candidate for the presidency of the republic by Pachakutik, after winning the primary elections of the movement with 46.7% of the votes (surpassing Salvador Quishpe by almost twenty percentage points, who came in second place).However, at the end of September 2016 the decision of the movement to withdraw Tibán's candidacy and support Paco Moncayo, candidate of the Democratic Left, was announced.At the beginning of 2017 she was appointed member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for the period 2017–2019.