Pachakutik

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Movimiento de Unidad Plurinacional Pachakutik - Nuevo País (MUPP-NP) is a party in Ecuador which is allied with the Indian umbrella organization CONAIE and which represents the interests of the indigenous people of all of Ecuador. The name is derived from the Kichwa word Pachakuti , which means "turning point".

The party was founded on May 19, 1996 and has been represented in the National Congress by several members of parliament without interruption since the following parliamentary elections , including Luis Macas , who was chairman of CONAIE until 1996 , and the lawyer Nina Pacari .

In the period that followed, the party also succeeded in winning several mayor offices, for example through the founding members Auki Tituaña in Cotacachi (1996) and Mario Conejo Maldonado in Otavalo (2000). In the local elections in 2004 Pachakutik has already won 17 Municipios .

Pachakutik caused a sensation when she formed a coalition with the Partido Sociedad Patriótica of Lucio Gutiérrez with Luis Macas as Minister of Agriculture and Nina Pacari as Foreign Minister in 2002 and left it only 3 months later, which in the long term led to Gutiérrez's overthrow, which subsequently changed formed unstable political alliances.

The unresolved relationship with the governments of Ecuador, including President Rafael Correa , who was elected at the end of 2006, weakened the party. A number of politicians left the party, including Otavalo's mayor Mario Conejo Maldonado . Pachakutik suffered several setbacks in subsequent elections, such as the 2006 presidential election and the 2009 local elections.

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