Movimiento Popular Democrático
The Movimiento Popular Democrático (MPD) is a revolutionary communist party with a Marxist-Leninist or Maoist orientation in Ecuador , which split off in 1978 from the Partido Comunista Marxista Leninista del Ecuador . It maintains close relationships with the Juventud Revolucionaria del Ecuador and the teachers' union Unión Nacional de Educadores . Its members sit in a large number of parliaments in Ecuador at different levels. It also provides 2 prefects ( Lucía Sosa in Esmeraldas and Diego Ormaza in Cañar ) and a number of mayors. Esmeraldas province is a traditional stronghold of the party. The presidential candidate and former MP of the party, Jaime Hurtado , who was murdered in 1999, came from here .
The party had three seats in the 2007-08 Constituent Assembly ; their MPs supported the new constitution. In the 2006 elections to the National Congress she had also received three seats, one each for the provinces of Esmeraldas, Pichincha and Pastaza . Its chairman and presidential candidate Luis Alfredo Villacís received 1.33 percent of the vote in the simultaneous presidential elections and thus did not reach the runoff election as ninth in the first round. In the 2009 elections to the National Assembly , the MPD secured 5 seats. There, together with Pachakutik and a few others, it forms the Alianza Progresista faction, which is close to the government.
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- ^ Rafael Quintero: Electores contra partidos en un sistema político de mandos. Editorial Abya Yala, 2005, ISBN 9789978225424 limited preview in Google Book Search