Creating Opportunities is a centre-right political party in Ecuador. In the 2021 general election,its leader,Guillermo Lasso was elected for president.
Guillermo Alberto Santiago Lasso Mendoza is an Ecuadorian businessman,banker and politician who served as the 47th president of Ecuador from 2021 to 2023. He was the country's first conservative president in nearly two decades,marking a shift in the country's electorate.
Nathalie Andrea Arias Arias is an Ecuadorian politician in the Creating Opportunities party (CREO). She was elected in 2021 to Ecuador's 4th National Assembly
The conservative wave,or blue tide,was a right-wing political phenomenon that occurred in the mid-2010s to the early 2020s in Latin America as a direct reaction to the pink tide.
Andrés Arauz Galarza is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who ran for Vice President of Ecuador in the 2023 election. Arauz served as Minister of Knowledge and Human Talent in the Rafael Correa administration from 2015 to 2017. He also briefly served as President of the Citizen Revolution Movement from five months between December 2020 to May 2021.
General elections were held in Ecuador on 7 February 2021,established by the National Electoral Council (CNE) as the date for the first round of the presidential election and a vote on mining in Cuenca. Incumbent president Lenín Moreno,who had held the office since his victory over Guillermo Lasso in 2017,did not seek reelection. Although delaying the election due to the COVID-19 pandemic was discussed,the CNE announced on 15 December 2020 that the electoral calendar would not shift and confirmed elections would take place in February 2021.
Yaku Sacha Pérez Guartambel,often simply known as Yaku Pérez,is an Ecuadorian politician and indigenous rights,human rights,and nature's rights activist,who ran for president of the country in the 2021 presidential elections and came third in the first round. He ran for president again in the 2023 elections.
Events in the year 2021 in Ecuador.
Union for Hope 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.
Ximena del Rocío Peña Pacheco is an Ecuadorian politician. She served as a member of the National Assembly from 2013 to 2020,and was the presidential candidate of the incumbent PAIS Alliance party in the 2021 election.
Maria de Lourdes Alcívar Crespo is an Ecuadorian socialite,who was the First Lady of Ecuador from 24 May 2021 to 23 November 2023,as the wife of former President Guillermo Lasso. She was seen as a "key female figure" of the Creating Opportunities party.
Snap general elections were held in Ecuador on 20 August 2023 to vote for President of Ecuador,members of the National Assembly and two referendums. Elections followed the invocation of muerte cruzada,which dissolved the National Assembly on 17 May 2023. A run-off election was held on 15 October 2023 to elect the President after candidates were unable to reach the threshold needed 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 stand for re-election in response to his impeachment.
Events in the year 2023 in Ecuador.
A political crisis began in Ecuador on 17 May 2023 as a result of the impeachment trial against President Guillermo Lasso. The impeachment inquiry began in the National Assembly on 9 May and lasted until 17 May when Lasso dissolved parliament through the constitutional provision known as muerte cruzada. That triggered the end of the impeachment inquiry as it dissolved the National Assembly and caused an earlier general election. The mutual dissolution marks the first time this constitutional measure has been triggered by an Ecuadorian president.
Pedro JoséFreile Vallejo is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician who ran for President of Ecuador in the 2021 election. Freile was born in Quito,Ecuador. He served as Director of the Inter-American Development Bank part of the Ecuador Division from 2004 to 2005.
Luisa Magdalena González Alcivar is an Ecuadorian politician and lawyer who ran for President of Ecuador in the 2023 general election. She was elected to the National Assembly in the 2021 legislative elections representing the Province of Manabi.
Jan Tomislav TopićFeraud is an Ecuadorian businessman,economist,and politician who ran for President of Ecuador in the 2023 Ecuadorian general election. He was eliminated in the first round held on 20 August 2023,coming fourth with 14.66% of the vote. He has served as president of Telconet since 2010. His alleged activities for the French Foreign Legion have raised concerns of Topićbeing a mercenary,a label that he denied. Prior to the 2023 Ecuadorian political crisis,he was briefly nominated to serve as Minister of Security by Guillermo Lasso.
Marcelo Xavier Hervas Mora is an Ecuadorian businessman and politician who unsuccessfully ran for President of Ecuador in the 2023 election. He previously ran for president in the 2021 election as the Democratic Left nominee,being eliminated in the first round. Hervas was born in Guayaquil,Ecuador. He is president of the company NovaAlimentos SA.
Bolívar Abdón Armijos Velasco is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician who served as president of the National Council of Rural Parochial Governments of Ecuador (CONAGOPARE). He was a candidate for the presidency of Ecuador for the AMIGO Movement in the Ecuador presidential elections of 2023.
The United Society - More Action,or SUMA Party is an Ecuadorian political party,founded by Mauricio Rodas and Guillermo Celi in 2012. Initially led by Rodas,until his political retirement in 2019;the party is led by Celi.
