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Partido Sociedad Patriótica 21 De Enero
The Patriotic Society Party (, PSP), formerly the January 21 Patriotic Society () is a populist and personalist political party in Ecuador, led by former army colonel Lucio Gutiérrez. "January 21" refers to the date of the 2000 Ecuadorian coup d'état. At the legislative elections, 20 October 2002, the party won at least two out of one hundred seats, and additional seats in alliances with other parties. Its leader, Lucio Gutiérrez, a key figure in the 2000 coup d'état, formed an alliance with the indigenous Pachakutik Movement and won 20.3% of the vote in the presidential elections of the same day, winning the second round with 58.7%. His campaign appealed especially to indigenous citizens and lower-class voters. However, Gutiérrez was deposed in 2005, and replaced with Alfredo Palacio, an independent. Gutiérrez subsequently returned to Ecuador and was imprisoned for five months before being released. He was not allowed to participate in the 2006 election to succeed Palacio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucio Gutiérrez
Lucio Edwin Gutiérrez Borbúa (born 23 March 1957) is an Ecuadorian politician and former military officer who served as the 43rd president of Ecuador from 2003 until his impeachment in 2005. In 2023, he was elected to the National Assembly. Early life Lucio Gutierrez, in full Lucio Edwin Gutiérrez Borbua, (born 23 March 1957, Quito, Ecuador), Ecuadorian army colonel and politician who served as president of Ecuador (2003–05). Gutiérrez was raised in Tena, an Amazon basin town. He was the son of a traveling salesman and attended primary and secondary school in Tena before transferring at age 15 to a military college in Quito. Gutiérrez graduated from the Army Polytechnic School as a civil engineer after having won honor's for academic and athletic prowess. He later studied in Brazil and the United States. Gutiérrez rose steadily through the army ranks. In 1990–92 he served with the United Nations observer mission to Nicaragua. As a young man, he demonstrated little i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Palacio
Luis Alfredo Palacio González (22 January 1939 – 22 May 2025) was an Ecuadorian cardiologist and politician who was the 44th president of Ecuador from 2005 to 2007. He had been the 44th vice president under President Lucio Gutiérrez, until he was appointed to the presidency when the Ecuadorian Congress removed Gutiérrez from power following a week of growing unrest with his government. He previously served as Minister of Health between 1994 and 1996. Early life and medical career Palacio was born in Guayaquil on 22 January 1939, the son of sculptor Alfredo Palacio Moreno and Ana María González. He grew up in a leftist family. His paternal grandfather was the writer Manuel Belisario Moreno. He studied primary and secondary education at the Abdón Calderón School and the San José La Salle School in his native Guayaquil. Palacio later obtained a PhD in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Guayaquil in 1967. He then moved to the United States, where he lived fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Parties Established In 2002
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2007 Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly Election
Constituent Assembly elections were held in Ecuador on 30 September 2007. A Constituent Assembly was established following an April referendum on doing so. A total of 130 delegates were elected; 24 members from national lists, 100 elected from provincial constituencies and six for overseas votes. The large number of candidates and lists (26 national lists, 428 provincial lists, 44 emigrant lists) caused the elections to be the most complex in Ecuador's history. Although polls indicated that Correa's PAIS Alliance would win a plurality in the election, but not a majority, PAIS won a landslide victory, winning 80 of the 130 seats, giving the party the power to dismiss Congress and make the substantial constitutional reforms for which Correa has been calling. PAIS won all six foreign seats. The Constituent Assembly was to be set up on 31 October 2007 and have six months (with a possible extension of two months) to draft a new constitution, which will then have to be ratified in a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Ecuadorian General Election
General elections were held in Ecuador on 9 February 2025. As no presidential candidate secured an outright majority, a run-off was conducted on 13 April 2025. Incumbent President Daniel Noboa was re-elected for a full term, defeating Luisa González of the Citizen Revolution Movement in a rematch. The elections also included selecting members of the National Assembly (Ecuador), National Assembly, the 21 Provinces of Ecuador, provincial assemblies, and Ecuador's representatives to the Andean Parliament to serve full four-year terms. In the first round, Noboa had received 44.17% of the vote, slightly ahead of González, who received 44%. The coalition formed by the Citizen Revolution Movement and the RETO Movement, led by former President Rafael Correa, secured a narrow Plurality (voting), plurality in the National Assembly (Ecuador), National Assembly with 67 seats, followed closely by Noboa's National Democratic Action (Ecuador), National Democratic Action party with 66 seats. V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Ecuadorian General Election
Snap election, Snap general elections were held in Ecuador on 20 August 2023 to elect the President of Ecuador, members of the National Assembly (Ecuador), National Assembly, and to decide on two referendums. The elections were triggered by the invocation of , which 2023 Ecuadorian political crisis, dissolved the National Assembly (Ecuador), National Assembly on 17 May 2023. A run-off election was held on 15 October 2023 to elect the President after no candidate secured the required threshold to win in the first round. Incumbent president Guillermo Lasso was eligible for a second term, but he announced on 18 May that he would not seek re-election in response to his impeachment. The officials electedto both the executive and legislative brancheswill serve the remainder of the current presidential and legislative terms (2021–2025), beginning on 25 November 2023. A regular election for a full four-year term is expected to take place in early 2025. 2023 Ecuadorian Yasuní National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Ecuadorian General Election
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2017 Ecuadorian General Election
General elections were held in Ecuador on 19 February 2017 alongside a referendum on tax havens. Voters elected a new President and National Assembly. Incumbent President Rafael Correa of the PAIS Alliance was not eligible for re-election, having served three terms. In the first round of the presidential elections, PAIS Alliance candidate Lenín Moreno received 39% of the vote. Although he was more than 10% ahead of his nearest rival, Guillermo Lasso of the Creating Opportunities party, Moreno was just short of the 40% threshold required to avoid a run-off. As a result, a second round was held on 2 April.Ecuador will hold run-off poll to choose new president BBC News, 23 February 2017 In the second round Moreno was elected president with 51.16% of the vote. Background ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Ecuadorian General Election
General elections were held in Ecuador on 20 October 2002, with a second round of the presidential elections on 24 November.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p380 The result was a victory for Lucio Gutiérrez of the PSP– MUPP–NP alliance, who won the run-off with 54.8% of the vote. The Social Christian Party emerged as the largest party in the National Congress, winning 24 of the 100 seats. IPU Results President National Congress References {{Ecuadorian elections Elections in Ecuador |
2013 Ecuadorian General Election
General elections were held in Ecuador on 17 February 2013 to elect the President, the National Assembly, Provincial Assemblies and members of the Andean Parliament. The incumbent President Rafael Correa was re-elected by a wide margin. Correa's closest electoral rival, Guillermo Lasso, conceded the election shortly after it concluded. The vote had been set for January 2013, but was put back a month to allow a full year to elapse after the reform of election rules. This was the first election since 1996 held after the natural expiration of a four-year presidential term. This was due to a decade of political and economical instability that Ecuador experienced after Abdalá Bucaram was impeached by the former Congress, in late 1997, and that lasted until Correa's inauguration in early 2007. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Ecuadorian General Election
Early general elections were held in Ecuador on 26 April 2009 following the approval of a new constitution in a referendum held on 28 September 2008. President Rafael Correa ran for his first term under the new constitution. The election was initially expected to be held in October 2010. Among the candidates for President were current President Rafael Correa, supported by his PAIS Alliance and the Socialist Party; Álvaro Noboa ran under the banner of the PRIAN and had the support of the Social Christian Party (PSC) and the Christian Democratic Union. Former president Lucio Gutiérrez ran as the candidate of the January 21 Patriotic Society Party. Preliminary results suggested that Correa had won reelection in the first round easily, surpassing 50% of the vote, followed by Gutiérrez coming in second with about 28% of the vote. Correa's came short of having an absolute majority in parliament. In addition Correa became the first sitting president to be reelected since Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
