Fabián Alarcón

Fabián Alarcón, 2016

Fabián Ernesto Alarcón Rivera (born April 14, 1947 in Quito ) is an Ecuadorian politician. He was President of his country from February 6 to 9, 1997 and from February 11, 1997 to August 10, 1998. He is a member of the Frente Radical Alfarista .

Alarcón studied political and social sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador up to Licenciatura and obtained a doctorate in law. As early as 1970 he was represented on the Quito City Council for the Partido Patriótico Popular . He later held political positions in the Pichincha province , of which he was prefect from 1984 to 1988. From 1990 he represented the Frente Radical Alfarista in the Ecuadorian parliament, the national congress .

Alarcón had been President of the National Congress since August 1995, and was re-elected to this post after the 1996 general election, in which he won one of the two seats in his party. After President Abdalá Bucaram was dismissed for “mental inability to take office”, he was elected as his successor on February 7, 1997 by a simple majority of Congressmen. Alarcón was close to Bucarám and his party. This succession was challenged on the one hand by Bucaram, who refused his removal, and on the other hand by the previous Vice-President Rosalía Arteaga , who saw herself as Bucaram's constitutional successor. On February 9, Alarcón briefly recognized Arteaga as the incumbent incumbent, before the parties reached a compromise on February 11 that Alarcón should serve as interim president until the early elections on August 10, 1998. Bucaram, who was unable to assert himself politically, fled into exile in Panama. Alarcón did not run for the early elections in 1998. After his presidency he was charged with corruption in office but later acquitted.

He continues to receive a lifelong pension from the Ecuadorian government of $ 38,800 per year.

Web links

• Fabián Alarcón Rivera , detailed biography on the homepage of the Fundación CIDOB (Spanish)
• Humberto Oña Villarreal, Interinazgo Del Dr. Fabian Alarcon Rivera , presentation of his presidency on EcuadorOnline (Spanish)

predecessor	Office	successor
Abdalá Bucaram	President of Ecuador February 1997	Rosalía Arteaga

predecessor	Office	successor
Rosalía Arteaga	President of Ecuador 1997 - 1998	Jamil Mahuad