Partido Conservador Ecuatoriano
The Partido Conservador Ecuatoriano (German: Ecuadorian Conservative Party ) was one of the oldest political parties in Ecuador .
In 1883 the first political organization in Ecuador, the Unión Republicana , came into being, in which supporters of Gabriel García Moreno's ideas gathered. As a conservative opposition, the Unión Republicana opposed liberalism - at times also violent - especially at the time of Eloy Alfaro . Politicians like Antonio Flores Jijón , Vicente Lucio Salazar and Juan Manuel Lasso were found in it . Their main backing consisted of the traditional elites (large landowners and church representatives), especially in the northern Andean region ( Sierra ) around the capital Quito .
After the July Revolution of 1925, the Partido Conservador Ecuatoriano was formally founded as one of the first parties in Ecuador under the direction of Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño shortly after the Partido Liberal Radical Ecuatoriano .
In the course of its work in the Alianza Democrática Ecuatoriana , which politically organized the overthrow of the Liberal Party President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río in the so-called Glorious Revolution of 1944, the Conservative Party supported Velasco Ibarra's policies in the 1940s . After its fall, the importance of the Conservative Party slowly declined, even if politicians like Mariano Suárez Veintimilla and Gonzalo Cordero Crespo were able to achieve brief successes. In the 1970s, a more progressive line split within the party to Julio César Trujillo on the Conservative Party and formed first the party Partido Conservador Progresista , which eventually in 1977 with which Partido Demócrata Cristiano (founded PDC, 1964) by Osvaldo Hurtado united and formed the important party Democracia Popular in the 1980s and 1990s .
In the presidential election 1978/79 she supported the conservative candidate Sixto Durán Ballén , who ran for the Partido Social Cristiano (PSC). In the following elections in 1984 she was part of the election platform Frente de Reconstrucción Nacional , for which León Febres Cordero (PSC) stood. The Partido Conservador was increasingly weakened by various splits and party changes of important members and lost independent political significance. Most recently, the party competed as Unión Nacional (UNO, alluding to its traditional list position on the electoral lists) in the 2002 parliamentary elections , but received (significantly) less than 5% of the vote for the second time in a row. It was therefore deleted from the list of parties and ceased to exist as a political party.
There are currently attempts in the vicinity of the Mayor of Guayaquil Jaime Nebot to re-establish the Partido Conservador Ecuatoriano as an alternative to Alianza PAÍS . The entrepreneur and politician Eduardo Maruri founded a political movement with the abbreviation UNO for the 2008 elections, which has no connection with the PCE (and was listed at number 41).
Web links
- Chronicle of the Conservative Party on the homepage of the Diario HOY newspaper (Spanish)
- Rafael Quintero López, Electores contra partidos en un sistema político de mandos , Quito: Abya-Yala, 2005, Editorial Abya Yala , 2005, ISBN 9978225420 ( on Google Books )
Individual evidence
- ↑ See u. a. Uno se alista para el "Congresillo" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Radio / Multimedias 106, October 16, 2008.
