Alexandra Blanca Vela Puga is an

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lawyer and politician originally from

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. She is currently a

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of the Faculty of Law at the .

Biography

Alexandra Vela was born to Ecuadorian parents in

. She studied law at the

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and the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil. In 1997, she became one of the founding members of the Ecuadorian Christian Democratic Union. Vera became the

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in 1978, holding this position until Roldós's death in 1981, and then served as

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of Public Administration to

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until the end of his presidency. Vela served two four-year terms as the from 1988 to 1996. Later, she was elected to the

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to represent the CDU and the province of Pichincha. In this period, she sued then president

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for

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after he accused Vera of having stolen documents important to the investigation of the death of former president Jaime Roldós Aguilera. The Supreme Court of Ecuador ruled in favor of Vera in 1998 and sentenced Bucaram to two years in prison, but he had by this time already fled to

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in Panama. From 1997 to 1998, Vera served as the Vice President of the National Congress. She resigned from this seat to join the , responsible for the drafting of the . After the demise of the government of

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and the disintegration of the CDU bloc in the National Congress, Vela became part of

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. She would unsuccessfully attempt to win a seat in the . She joined the

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as Interior Minister in 2021.

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