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''Red Ética y Democracia'', RED) was a
centre-left
Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The ...
political party
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in
Ecuador
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. It was formed by labour union leaders and other leftist militants,
led by
León Roldós, former vice-president and brother of former president
Jaime Roldós
Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and i ...
, who came from the
Ecuadorian Socialist Party. For the
October 2006 elections, RED entered into an alliance with the
Democratic Left party, to support the candidacy of León Roldós and running mate Ramiro González, former Prefect of the
Pichincha Province
Pichincha () is a province of Ecuador located in the northern Sierra region; its capital and largest city is Quito. It is bordered by Imbabura and Esmeraldas to the north, Cotopaxi and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas to the south, Napo and ...
. The alliance's presidential ticket came in fourth place with 14.8% of the votes, while RED won 5 of 100 seats in Congress.
Between 2005 and 2007, RED received training by the U.S.
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
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through its ''Political Party Network'' funded by the
National Endowment for Democracy
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.
In 2009,
Martha Roldós, the daughter of Jaime and niece of León Roldós ran as RED's presidential candidate. She was considered one of the strongest left-wing contenders of President
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 ...
whom she heavily criticized, but won only 4.3% of the votes.
Mario Unda, professor of sociology at the
Central University of Ecuador
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criticized RED for a perceived drift to the
right
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and links with
business oligarchs.
RED was joined by
Mónica Chuji, a former member of Correa's government who had turned against him, accusing him of authoritarian tendencies and excessive economic focus on ecologically harmful
extractive industries
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. Chuji became RED's frontrunner for the Congressional election,
[Becker (2011), p. 172.] in which the party failed to win any seat.
References
2005 establishments in Ecuador
2013 disestablishments in Ecuador
Defunct political parties in Ecuador
Ethics organizations
Plurinational Unity of the Lefts
Political parties disestablished in 2013
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