On April 11, 2021, Guillermo Country Email List Lasso was elected president of Ecuador. His victory was certainly possible, but not so likely given the conditions of his participation in the contest. In the first round of the Country Email List presidential elections, Lasso had finished 13 percentage points below the winner, Andrés Arauz, a progressive candidate nominated to represent Rafael Correa's Citizen Revolution. In addition, Lasso managed to secure second place and go to the ballot with a minimum Country Email List difference of just 0.3% (equivalent to 32,000 votes out of a total of almost 9.3 million voters) over Yaku Pérez, candidate of the Unity Movement Plurinational Pachakutik, leftist political party and electoral arm of the Ecuadorian indigenous movement.
In other words, Lasso Country Email List overcame a considerable difference, in a context in which everything pointed to a good part of the progressive-leaning votes received in the first round by the Pachakutik candidate going to support the progressive option Country Email List represented by Andrés Arauz. After all, Lasso embodied a very conservative orientation option in the social sphere and in favor of market liberalization Country Email List policies in the economic sphere. How, then, was the victory of a banker close to the Opus Dei faction of the Catholic Church and neoliberal rhetoric possible? In this article we do not address the broader context of political economy in which these elections are inserted.
The objective is more austere: we present a structural Country Email List reading of public opinion trends and the electoral mechanics that made possible the election of Lasso as the new president of Ecuador. The first electoral round Country Email List and the limits of Correismo Until the first round, Arauz proposed a return to a past to which not even some correistas wanted to return. His proposal consisted, in short, of recovering the direction of the Correa government that Lenín Moreno had abandoned Country Email List since 2017. The message was clear: Arauz was not proposing a change and.