Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano
The Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano (Eng. "Roldosist Ecuadorian Party"; PRE ) is a political party in Ecuador . It is classified as populist , sees itself as more left-wing and is viewed from the outside more as a center-right party. The party is mainly elected in the poor areas of the city of Guayaquil and the coastal provinces. Their social support group are representatives of the entrepreneurial upper class of Guayaquil and numerous other cities, especially in the coastal region. The party chairman is the entrepreneur Alfredo Adum; her central personality, however, is party founder Abdalá Bucaram .
history
The PRE was entered in the register of parties on January 18, 1983. His name comes from the President of Ecuador, Jaime Roldós, who died in an accident in 1982 . The party was founded by a family-like group around his brother-in-law Abdalá Bucaram and refers to the social reform program Roldos', who at the beginning of the 1980s wanted to use the income from the country's oil production for poverty reduction and literacy. Such a policy was described by Bucaram and his colleagues as "Roldosist". The party is also committed to the legacy of Assad Bucaram , an uncle of Abdalá, who, as leader of the Concentración de Fuerzas Populares, led the most successful populist party of the 1960s and 1970s alongside the Frente Nacional Velasquista .
The Roldosist Party initially had its support primarily in the poor areas of the largest city in Ecuador, Guayaquil, which were created through informal settlement . Bucaram gained a following here by promising infrastructure (electricity, water, roads, schools, etc.) for these neighborhoods and by distributing gifts in a populist manner.
He was elected mayor of Guayaquil in 1984, but fled to Panama in September 1985 after he was convicted of lese majesty against the Ecuadorian President León Febres Cordero, who was also from Guayaquil, and charged with denigrating the national armed forces. He did not return until 1987 to run in the presidential elections, in which he was defeated as a candidate with the second most votes in the first ballot in the second ballot Rodrigo Borja ( ID ).
Bucaram's sister Elsa was elected mayor of Guayaquil in the mayoral elections that took place at the same time. She served from 1988 to 1991 when she fled into exile in Panama on embezzlement charges . Abdalá Bucaram, who had been dropped on similar charges in 1990, ran in the 1992 presidential election and came third with 22% of the vote in the second ballot. In the presidential elections in 1996 Bucaram ran again and prevailed in the second ballot against the candidate of the Partido Social Cristiano , Jaime Nebot . Contributing to this was his election campaign under the motto La fuerza de los pobres (Eng. "The power of the poor"), in which, among other things, he decided on highly subsidized housing programs that were generally not considered feasible.
Contrary to his comprehensive social reform program, Bucaram ruled rather neoliberally in the interests of entrepreneurs in his social environment. However, his presidency was shaped more by the unpredictable actions of the president and nepotism than by systematic politics. It only lasted 186 days. He was finally deposed by parliament after major social protests over the planned abolition of subsidies for electricity and gas and the widespread allegations of corruption, embezzlement and nepotism. Bucaram fled again to Panama, where he still lives today. Although he has not been the official chairman for several years, he is still the leading figure in his party.
In the presidential elections in 1998, the multimillionaire Álvaro Noboa ran for the PRE and was defeated in the second ballot Jamil Mahuad DP . After the election, Bucaram and Noboa fell out, whereupon Noboa founded its own party, the Partido Renovador Institucional Acción Nacional PRIAN.
In 2002, Abdalá's brother Jacobo Bucaram ran as a presidential candidate and received only the sixth most votes with 11.9%. In the elections for the National Congress that took place at the same time , the PRE was the second strongest party with 15 seats (behind the Partido Social Cristiano ). The party played a key role in the unconstitutional resolution in the National Congress in December 2004 to fill 27 of the 31 judge posts at the Supreme Court. The replacement of the Supreme Court with PRE, PRIAN and judges close to the incumbent President Gutiérrez's party , PSP, led to the fact that the existing charges against Abdalá Bucaram were annulled and he was able to return to Ecuador. But it also led to widespread protests that ultimately resulted in the dissolution of the Supreme Court, the overthrow of President Gutiérrez and Bucaram's renewed flight to Panama. Several members of the PRE then left the party or were expelled from Congress, so that in October 2006 the parliamentary group still consisted of ten members.
Last election results (2004, 2006, 2009)
After the regional elections in 2004, the PRE provides the prefects of the provinces of El Oro and Los Ríos and, since March 2006, the prefect of the province of Sucumbíos . It provides the mayors of 21 of the 219 canton capitals and ten others in coalitions with other parties. Of the 21 cities governed by PRE mayors, 19 are in the coastal region ( Manabí 6, Los Ríos 5, Guayas 4, El Oro 3 and Esmeraldas 1) and two in the Amazon province of Sucumbios. Most of them are small towns. The largest city ruled by a mayor of the PRE is Santa Rosa in the province of El Oro with 45,000 inhabitants. In Guayaquil, the PRE has only been the third strongest party after the Partido Social Cristiano and, more recently, Álvaro Noboas PRIAN, since Abdalá and Elsa Bucaram's mayor terms, which can be assessed as chaotic.
The candidate for the 2006 presidential election was Fernando Rosero, a lawyer from Guayaquil. He received 2.1% of the vote in the first ballot on October 15 and did not move into the second round. In the parliamentary elections that took place at the same time, the PRE lost - presumably to the likewise populist parties PRIAN (from Álvaro Noboa) and PSP (from Lucio Gutiérrez) - and received only six seats. Overall, the party received around 8.4 percent of the vote. In its stronghold, the province of Guayas , the party received 12.3 percent of the vote. It achieved its best result in the province of Esmeraldas , where it was the second strongest party with 15.7 percent of the vote. Among the elected MPs are entertainment show host Gabriela Pazmiño , wife of Bucarám's son Dalo , and Jaime Jairala , a former TV journalist. However, the latter is now an independent MP.
In the elections for the National Assembly in 2009, the PRE won 3 seats.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Determined after the election results report of the Supreme Electoral Court to the National Congress: Informe del Tribunal Supremo Electoral al Congreso Nacional 2004, Quito 2005, Chapter 9: Resultados Electorales, online under Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. or archived copy ( memento of the original from April 24, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 27, 2006
- ↑ Data for the provinces according to the Supreme Electoral Court ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Total voting share calculated from the sum of the consolidated list voting equivalents ( votación consolidada ) across all provinces. The proportion of votes at national level does not play a role in the allocation of mandates; they are distributed at the provincial level.
