Mae Montaño Valencia (born April 7, 1953, Esmeraldas) is an Ecuadorian politician. She has worked for

human Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, cultu ...

and

women's rights Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, ...

and youth rehabilitation.

Political career

Montaño became the director of

A New Option A New Option (Spanish: Una Nueva Opción; UNO) was a non-profit organization from Ecuador which trains future political leaders. It was founded by Eduardo Maruri, a well known business man from Guayaquil, former president of the Guayaquil Chambe ...

in 2006, for whom she won a seat in the Constituent Assembly in 2007. Later, she helped organize the National Democratic Coalition. Montaño is one of the founders of the

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- ...

(CREO) party, organized in 2010. She was elected to the National Assembly representing CREO in and . On March 2, 2018, Montaño, dissatisfied with CREO, left the party and became an independent.

Odebrecht scandal

On June 18, 2018, under Article 131 of the Ecuadorian constitution, Montaño presented a request to the National Assembly for the impeachment of Attorney General Diego García for his role in the Odebrecht scandal, backed by 37 signatures, 23 annexes, and 1467 pieces of evidence. García had already resigned from the Attorney Generalship on January 31, 2018, after a decade at the post, but the Legislative Administration Council, the governing body of the National Assembly, approved the request on September 18, 2018, passing it to the Supervisory Commission the next day.

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