“Ladies and gentlemen, Ecuadorian people, we here present the independent candidates, citizen of clean hands , sharers in common, patriots, politicians; all of them today presenting themselves in this tribune in order to shine as the members of an Assembly which the Motherland deserves; in order to re-lower the prices, in favor of dialogue and not of confrontation; to attract investment, to generate jobs and wealth and to keep the dollar, for secula seculorum…” - can you believe this?
Fellow citizens, it is time to expose the candidates of the rich industralists and their allies, who continue to try to control the country. Will you let yourself be taken by the hair and return the vote to them?
Without any more introductions, here they are. These are the candidates of the Ecuadorian Right-wing for the Constituent Assembly, in Pichincha and at a national level:
LIST 3, SP, PATRIOTIC SOCIETY
Provincial Candidates for Latin America
- Mónica del Rocío Iza, Gonzalo Iza y Clara Iza: some family kinship, or pure coincidence? …
National Candidate
- Gilmar Gutiérrez, presently an oil industralist, ex-deputy for the SP.
Provincial Candidate
- Fausto Lupera, collaborator of the government of Lucio Gutiérrez
LIST 5, UDC, CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC UNION EX- DP, green arrow
National Candidate
- Ramiro Galarza, ex-Vice-minister of the Economy under Gutiérrez, partisan of the free market economy and the FTA.
Provincial Candidate
- Mauricio Pinto, industralist, ex-minister for Finances in the government of Sixto Durán Ballen; councilman for the DP; president of the DP Monetary Junta; supporter of signing the FTA with the US.
LIST 6, PSC, CHRISTIAN SOCIAL PARTY
National Candidate
- César Rohón, tuna industralist; was a member of the 1998 assembly, contributor to the privatisationist neoliberal Constitution that allowed the ransacking of public institutions and government properties. Contributor to the divisionist autonomy campaign underway in the country.
Provincial Candidate
- Blasco Peñaherrera Padilla, ex-vice-president under Leon Febres Cordero; partner of Buffet González-Peñaherrera, who is a legal adviser to oil-giant Petrobras; lawyer for the banker Nicolás Landes; defender of neoliberalism and the free company.
LIST 7, PRIAN, PARTY FOR INSTITUTIONAL RENOVATION
National Candidate
- Alvaro Noboa, ex-President of the Monetary Junta of Abdalá Bucarám; ex-presidential candidate; banana tycoon linked to the flour monopoly.
Provincial Candidate
- Vladimir Vargas, ex-employee of Alvaro Noboa; model and manager of CN Model Agency.
Additionally:
- Roberto Ponce Noboa, cousin of Alvaro Noboa.
- Maria Elena Pontón, relative of Alvaro Noboa.
LIST 10, PRE, ECUADORIAN ROLDOSISTA PARTY
National Candidate
- Héctor Solórzano, Lawyer and personal friend of Abdalá Bucarám.
Provincial Candidate
- Eduardo Armendáriz, Undersecretary for Small and Medium Industry in the government of Alfredo Palacio.
LISTS 12 & 32, ID, DEMOCRATIC LEFT
National Candidates
- Diego Monsalve, industralist, ex-deputy for ID.
- Eva García, ex-candidate to the vice-presidency of the republic for ID.
Provincial Candidate
- Diego Borja, ex-minister of the Economy, government of Alfredo Palacio.
LIST 23, MOVEMENT FOR CIVIC CHRISTIAN COMMITMENT
National Candidate
- Rosángela Adoum, ex-minister of education, government of Mahuad.
LIST 29, NETWORK FOR ETHICS AND DEMOCRACY (RED)
National Candidate
- Leon Roldós Aguilera, ex-vice-president of the Monetary Junta, ex-director of the University of Guayaquil during whose administration it attacked university students; a personage tied to the NGOs the Esquel Foundation, and Citizen Participation, with financing from the US.
Provincial Candidates
- Gallic Macías Rizzo, industralist, advocate of abolishing trade unionism.
- Luis Hernandez, industralist, ex-ally of the Colonel Lucio Gutiérrez.
Additionally, there is Raul Patiño, Coordinator of the RED, who was minister for Social welfare in the government of Gustavo Noboa.
LIST 41, MOVEMENT ONE
National Candidate
- Mae Montaño, industralist, ex-Manager of Esmeraldas Harbor Authority in the government of Alfredo Palacio; ex-member of Citizen Participation, and of USAID.
Provincial Candidate
- Santiago Rivadeneira, industralist, manager of Solidario Bank, in favour of signing the FTA with the US.
The master-mind of Movement ONE, Eduardo Maruri, is an industralist linked to the Chamber of Commerce of Guayaquil; its agency Maruri Publicity produced TV ads for OXY, when it tried to convince the country of the kindness of the North American oil company.
LIST 25, 53, 39, ALLIANCE MOVEMENT
National Candidate
- Oscar Ayerve, formerly a minister in the government of Lucio Gutiérrez.
LIST 51, MOVEMENT FOR NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC AGREEMENT
National Candidate
- César Montúfar, disguised spokesman for North American interference by the US in Ecuador. He was a high-ranking employee of Citizen Participation, and tied to private NGOs.
Provincial Candidates
- Pilar Perez, wife of the industralist Roque Sevilla, linked to Mahuad's Popular Democracy, today the UDC.
- Carlos Aguinaga, ex-president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, affiliated with the UDC.
LIST 55, NATIONAL MOVEMENT OF SOCIAL AGREEMENT
National Candidate
- Juana Vallejo, deputy and governor of Guayas Province, minister of Tourism, political quota of the Democratic Left party, ID.
Provincial Candidate
- Alexander Carrión, ex-deputy of ID.
LIST 99, CITIZEN MOVEMENT "THE FUTURE ALREADY!"
Provincial Candidate
- Lucio Pablo Paredes, ex-Secretary of Planning during the government of Sixto Durán Ballén; defender of neoliberal policies and the signing of the FTA with the US.
LIST 152, MOVEMENT "ECUADORIAN FORCE"
National Candidate
- Humberto Mata, industralist and retailer from Guayaquil, ex-candidate to the prefecture of Guayas Province, related to the Buenos Aires aristocracy.
As you will understand the list of candidates is enormous, but that is the strategy of the right, of avoiding the discovery of the past commonalities that unite them with the traditional and oligarchical parties, of which they were part. It is useful to identify the true candidates of the people, the workers, the farmers, the students, the small retailers, the migrants, etc. They have the space, the candidates who offer to fight for the nationalisation of petroleum and the mines; those that want to eliminate the labor 'casualisation'; who yearn to recover monetary, legal and territorial sovereignty, that the Right stripped from us with bad governments; those that dream of a worthy and sovereign motherland await your support.
It is necessary to bury the parties of the Right, those named ID, PRE, PRIAN, UDC, PSC and, of course, the PSP, of ex-president Lucio Gutiérrez.
It is imperative that you vote for the candidates of the revolutionary left, or for the tendency you prefer; that is to say:
- Alliance Country, List 35.
- Popular Democratic Movement MPD, List 15.
- Socialist Party - Pachakutik alliance, List 17-18.
- Democratic Pole, List 50.
- Movement Thousand Triumphs, List 155.
- Independence, Justice and Solidarity Movement, List 40.
- Freedom Party, List 11.
We must win most of the 130 seats that will make up the Constituent Assembly, that is to say, at least 70 members of the assembly, to change, with the new Magna Carta, the future of Ecuador and of our children.
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