Ecuadorian_Roldosist_Party

Ecuadorian Roldosist Party

Ecuadorian Roldosist Party

Political party in Ecuador

The Ecuadorian Roldosist Party (PRE) (Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano) was a populist political party in Ecuador. The party was named after former President Jaime Roldós. It was founded after Roldós' death by his brother-in-law Abdalá Bucaram as a more leftish spin-off from the Concentration of People's Forces.[3] Bucaram was elected President in 1996 but was impeached the following year. Though Jaime Roldós's brother León Roldós is still very involved in Ecuadorian politics, he is not a member of the Roldosist Party.

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At the legislative elections, 20 October 2002, the party won 15 out of 100 seats. Its candidate Jacobo Bucaram Ortiz won 11.9% of the vote in the presidential elections of the same day, coming in 6th place. At the legislative elections of October 15, 2006, the party was badly defeated, winning 6 of 100 seats in the Congress. Its presidential candidate in 1998, Álvaro Noboa, who was narrowly defeated in that election, ran as a presidential candidate in 2002, 2006 and 2009 for another party and participated unsuccessfully in a runoff both times. The Roldosist Party's own presidential candidate for the 2006 election, Fernando Rosero received less than 2% of the vote.

In 2014 the party's legal status was withdrawn by the National Electoral Council. A successor party, Fuerza Ecuador, was established in its place.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    De La Torre, Carlos (2010), Populist Seduction in Latin America (Second ed.), Ohio University Press, p. 112
  2. [2]
    Madrid, Raúl L. (2012), The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America, Cambridge University Press, pp. 94, 101
  3. [3]
    Conniff, Michael L. (2012-07-31). Populism in Latin America: Second Edition. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-5709-2.
  4. [4]
    The PRE reinvents itself in the group Fuerza.EC El Comercio, 20 October 2014


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