The general elections in Ecuador were brought forward to August 20, 2023, in which citizens will have to go to the polls to elect a new president and legislators for the National Assembly until 2025, after the current president, Guillermo Lasso, decreed the cross-death, in the framework of the impeachment process he was facing.
Ecuador’s political parties and movements have until May 31 to make their candidacies official before the National Electoral Council (CNE).
In the sidewalk of the opposition Union for Hope (UNES) – a coalition victorious in the last sectional elections, in which it obtained the mayoralties of Quito and Guayaquil, as well as the prefectures of the provinces of Pichincha and Guayas – some candidates are appearing.
Along with the recognized names of the economist Andrés Arauz, former presidential candidate in 2021, and the journalist and commercial engineer Carlos Rabascal of the Democratic Center Movement, there is the surprise candidacy of former Assemblywoman Luisa González, proposed by Rafael Correa.
LUISA GONZÁLEZ, “STAUNCH” CORREA’S DEFENDER
Luisa Magdalena González Alcívar is one of the names that sound on the sidewalk of Revolución Ciudadana as the first female candidate of the movement led by former president Correa.
UNES legislator for the province of Manabí from 2021 until the dissolution of the National Assembly decreed by Lasso, González has been part of the Ecuadorian public administration since 2016.
“In the National Assembly, Gonzalez was recognized as one of Correa’s staunchest supporters. ”
“Some feminist collectives, upon learning that she is one of the options, recalled that González was one of the legislators who opposed the Law on Abortion in Cases of Rape that was approved in 2022,” reported the Ecuadorian media Expreso.
The former assemblywoman is a lawyer who graduated from the International University of Ecuador with a master’s degree in Senior Management from the Institute of Higher National Studies and a master’s degree in International Economics and Development from the Complutense University of Madrid.
González served in 2016 as undersecretary general of Public Administration.
In 2017 she was appointed advisor at Correos del Ecuador, consul general of Ecuador in Alicante, Spain, and secretary general of the Superintendence of Companies, Securities, and Insurance.
The potential UNES candidate served between 2018 and 2019 as national secretary of the Andean Parliament, the unicameral body of political control of the Andean Community of Nations.
González has also been appointed as deputy minister of Tourism and Labor.
The CNE determined that the electoral campaign in Ecuador will take place from August 8 to 17.
All presidential candidates must participate in the electoral debates on a mandatory basis.
With information from Sputnik
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