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Union For Hope
Union for Hope ( es, Unión por la Esperanza) is a political coalition in Ecuador for the 2021 Ecuadorian general election. Political groups from the left-wing participated, with only the Democratic Center Movement being officially on the ballot, to sponsor the presidential candidacy of Andrés Arauz for the 2021 presidential election. Several social groups, provincial movements, and the Citizen Revolution Movement, of national scope not registered in the National Electoral Council (CNE), are also affiliate and in opposition to the government of Lenín Moreno. For the 2021 legislative election, alliances were formed in several provinces, together with the different local movements, distributing the candidates between movements. Formation On 7 April 2020, the leader of the Citizen Revolution Movement Rafael Correa was sentenced to 8 years in prison and 25 years without holding any public office for bribery dating from 2012 and 2016, making it impossible for him to run in 2021. Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Correa
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (; born 6 April 1963), known as Rafael Correa, is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation until 2017, Correa is a democratic socialist and his administration focused on the implementation of left-wing policies. Internationally, he served as president '' pro tempore'' of the UNASUR. Born to a lower middle-class mestizo family in Guayaquil, Correa studied economics at the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), and the University of Illinois, where he received his PhD. Returning to Ecuador, in 2005 he became the Minister for the Economy under President Alfredo Palacio, successfully lobbying Congress for increased spending on health and education projects. Correa won the presidency in the 2006 general election on a platform criticizing the established political elites. Taking off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenín Moreno
Lenín Voltaire Moreno Garcés (; born 19 March 1953) is an Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...ian politician who served as the 46th president of Ecuador, from 2017 to 2021. Moreno was Vice President of Ecuador, vice president from 2007 to 2013, serving under President Rafael Correa. He was nominated as the candidate for Correa's PAIS Alliance, a social democratic political party, in the 2017 Ecuadorian general election, 2017 presidential election and won a narrow victory in Ecuador's Two-round system, second round of voting on 2 April 2017. However, after his election Moreno drastically shifted his political stance, distancing himself from Correa's leftist legacy in both domestic and foreign policy. By the end of Moreno’s presidency, he had left office wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Parties Established In 2020
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Left-wing Political Party Alliances
Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in society whom its adherents perceive as disadvantaged relative to others as well as a belief that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished. Left-wing politics are also associated with popular or state control of major political and economic institutions. According to emeritus professor of economics Barry Clark, left-wing supporters "claim that human development flourishes when individuals engage in cooperative, mutually respectful relations that can thrive only when excessive differences in status, power, and wealth are eliminated." Within the left–right political spectrum, ''Left'' and ''Right'' were coined during the French Revolution, referring to the seating arrangement in the French Estates General. Those ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creating Opportunities
Creating Opportunities ( es, Creando Oportunidades, CREO; the acronym means ) is a centre-right political party in Ecuador. In 2021 general election, its leader, Guillermo Lasso was elected for president. Ideology Generally considered a centre-right conservative outfit, CREO's candidate in the 2021 presidential elections ran on a more centrist platform: his economic development model was mainly market-oriented and favoring entrepreneurship, but also promised state support to micro-enterprises and upgrading of education. Lasso promoted an independent judiciary and free speech (the opposition and civil rights organizations consider judicial autonomy and press freedom to be threatened under the administration of President Rafael Correa). History In the 2013 presidential election, Lasso was placed second with 22.7% of the votes, having been endorsed also by the Social Christian Party and the ''Madera de Guerrero'' movement of Guayaquil's mayor Jaime Nebot. In the simultaneous elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillermo Lasso
Guillermo Alberto Santiago Lasso Mendoza (; born 16 November 1955) is an Ecuadorian businessman, banker, writer and politician who has served as the 47th president of Ecuador since 24 May 2021. He is the country's first centre-right president in nearly two decades, marking a shift in the country's electorate. Lasso served as Superminister of Economy during the Jamil Mahuad presidency briefly in 1999. He previously served as Governor of Guayas from 1998 until 1999. In 2003, he briefly served as the Itinerant Ambassador of Ecuador during the Lucio Gutiérrez administration. Aside from his political career, Lasso is also a banker and previously served as CEO of Banco Guayaquil. During the presidency of Rafael Correa, Lasso became a noted critic of his administration. Lasso became involved in presidential politics when he founded the Creating Opportunities Party in 2012. He first ran for president in 2013; Lasso came in a distant second place behind President Correa, who won by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Cabezas
Janeth Paola Cabezas Castillo (born 4 September 1978) is an Ecuadorian politician and former television presenter. She was the Governor of Esmeraldas Province from 2013 to 2016 and is a current member of Ecuador's National Assembly for the Citizen Revolution Movement (RC). Cabezas was elected leader of the largest political coalition in the 2021 National Assembly, the Union for Hope (UNES). Early life and education Cabezas was born in Esmeraldas on 4 September 1978 and grew up in Quinindé. She started her radio career when she was fifteen. She graduated from the University of Guayaquil in 2008 and then studied Political Marketing at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she graduated with a master's degree. Professional career Cabezas worked as a radio presenter for a variety of radio stations of Esmeraldas, Quito and Guayaquil including Radio Disney of Guayaquil. In 2007 she was seen on TV as the presenter of RTS's morning TV program. This cea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofía Espín
Sofía Eugenia Espín Reyes is an Ecuadorian politician. After she was dismissed from the National Assembly she fled to Bolivia, where she applied for political asylum. Before this was resolved she was re-elected in May 2021. Espín was the president of the political coalition called Union for Hope. Life left, Press conference in September 2017 She was a delegate for the Citizen Revolution, but dismissed from the National Assembly in November 2018 with a majority of 94 votes. An investigation had noted that she visited Jessica Falcón, a person in prison who was involved with the kidnap of the politician Fernando Balda. This is an important case that involves the former President Rafael Correa. It was said that she and lawyer, Yadira Cadena, made an offer of legal assistance, money and political asylum, in Belgium, to Balda is she was willing to retract her evidence in the Balda case. Former President Correa fled to Belgium where he applied for political asylum while resisting E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierina Correa
Pierina Sara Mercedes Correa Delgado (born 30 May 1961) is an Ecuadorian architect and politician, sister of the former president of Ecuador Rafael Correa and a National Assembly member for Union for Hope. Biography Correa was born in Guayaquil. Her father was Rafael Correa Icaza, born in Los Ríos Province on 23 March 1935. Her mother is Norma Delgado Rendón, also from the Vinces Canton (Los Ríos Province), born on 1 September 1939. Correa has three other siblings: Fabricio, Rafael and Bernarda Correa. She graduated in 2002 as an architect from the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, and also has a Master's Degree in High Performance Sports from the Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia and the Spanish Olympic Committee. Political career In 2009, Correa was an unsuccessful candidate for the Prefect of Guayas by the PAIS Alliance. In 2019, she was a candidate for Prefect of Guayas for the Social Commitment Force in the 2019 Guayas provincial elections, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andean Parliament
The Andean Parliament is the governing and deliberative body of the Andean Community. It was created on October 25, 1979, in La Paz (Bolivia), through the Constitutive Treaty signed by the chancellors of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. It entered into force in January 1984. The Andean Parliament has a Headquarter, located in Bogotá (Colombia), administered by the Secretary General. In addition, each country has a National Headquarters. These serve as liaison and coordination bodies. It represents the 120 million inhabitants of the Andean Region, whose member states are Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile (which joined in 2015). Its main functions include legislative harmonization in its member countries, permanent and active representation of the peoples of the region, guaranteeing their participation and strengthening of the integration process, and parliamentary management through the political control of institutions of the Andean Integration System (I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly (Ecuador)
The National Assembly ( es, Asamblea Nacional) is the unicameral legislature of Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku .... It replaced the National Congress in 2009 following reforms under the 2008 Constitution. The current Speaker (politics), President of the Assembly is Virgilio Saquicela since 31 May 2022. Within politics of ecuador, Ecuador, the National Assembly has the power to pass legislation, laws, while appointment of judges to the Politics of Ecuador#Judicial branch, National Court of Justice is done by a separate Judicial Council. Ecuadorian general election, 2021 Eligibility According to Article 119 of the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador, candidates to the National Assembly must meet the following requirements: * Be an Ecuadorian national. * Be at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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