The possibility of a new candidacy for the presidency by the former Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso (2021-2023) has caused divisions in the political movement Creating Opportunities (BELIEVE)which leads.
According to a report by El Universo that cites the former Minister of Economic and Social Inclusion as a source, Stephen Bernalthe political group has decided to support a new Lasso candidacy, presumably for the 2025 presidential elections.
Esteban Bernal creates his own movement
Bernal, who was one of the founders of CREO, left the political party to form his own movement last weekend. The new collective led by Bernal is named ‘All’ and was described by its founder as a project that seeks efficient justice and a free economy.
The former minister was critical of the Lasso Government, which he accused of having made “enormous mistakes.” Bernal said that “you have to know how to listen” to the population, in reference to the low approval with which the former president-governor ended his administration. In October 2023, Lasso was the president with the lowest approval in Latin America along with the Peruvian In Boluarteboth with a 13% positive rating, according to CID Gallup.
The Lasso Government
The presidency of Guillermo Lasso was marked by various attempts at destabilization by the political opposition, made up of the Correismo, the Christian Social Party (PSC) and the indigenous movement Pachakutik. In addition to rejecting several of his bills in the National Assembly, the opposition attempted to remove him on two occasions. The first impeachment attempt, initiated by Correism, failed in June 2022. The second took place in May 2023 through a political trial against the president, which led Lasso to use the constitutional mechanism known as “death.” crusade”, which allows him to dissolve the Assembly and call early elections.
In recent months, investigations by the State Attorney General’s Office have found links between organized crime and Ecuadorian political groups that include Correísta and social-Christian officials such as Ronny Aleaga y Pablo Muenteswho were promoters of the impeachment trial against Lasso. (I)
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