The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, has left the door open this Tuesday to a possible candidacy for the next elections to be held in the Latin American country in 2025.
“The Constitution of Ecuador allows re-election only once. That will be in 2025, and at least in Washington one is a little emboldened and I can tell you that I am not going to evade that responsibility to continue a mandate,” Lasso said from the United States during a talk with the Inter-American think-tank Dialogue.
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The Ecuadorian president has highlighted that he won the last elections against “a populist model that has been characterized by penetrating power,” adding that democracy has finally returned, regardless of powers, to the country.
Lasso, from the CREO Movement, who is related to conservatism, took office on May 24 after the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced its victory in the second round of the elections against the correísta candidate Andrés Arauz.
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