Popular_Unity_(Ecuador)
Popular Unity (Ecuador)
Political party in Ecuador
The Popular Unity Movement (UP) (in Spanish: Movimiento Unidad Popular) is an Ecuadorian political movement of the revolutionary left close to Marxism-Leninism to be conformed with the electoral wing of the Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador.[1] Member of the National Agreement for Change.
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It arose after the CNE removed the Democratic People's Movement from its legal status after declaring the existence of poor electoral results on the part of this party.[2] The members of the previous party formed Unidad Popular to replace the old MPD, in which they would continue their political work.[3][4]
The party has a special stronghold in the province of Esmeraldas, where they held the provincial government from 2005 to 2019.