Ecuadorian Roldosist Party
The Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano (Eng. " Roldosistische Ecuadorian party"; PRE) is a political party in Ecuador. It is classified as populist, sees himself as more left- oriented and is viewed from the outside rather than center-right party. The party is elected, especially in the poor district of the city of Guayaquil and the coastal provinces. Their social support layer are representatives of the business elite of Guayaquil and many other cities especially in the coastal region. Chairman of the Party is the entrepreneur Alfredo Adum; its central figure is, however, Abdala Bucaram party founder.
History
The PRE was registered on 18 January 1983 in the party list. Its name comes from the 1982 fatalities president of Ecuador, Jaime Roldós. The party was founded by a family- embossed circle around his brother Abdala Bucaram and refers to the social reform program Roldos ', who wanted to use, among others, the revenues of oil production in the country for poverty reduction and literacy in the early 1980s. Such a policy was described by Bucaram and his colleagues as " roldosistisch ". The party is also the legacy of Assad Bucarams, an uncle of Abdala, committed, who had headed the leader of the Fuerzas Populares de Concentración the successful addition of the Frente Nacional Velasquista populist party of the 1960s and 1970s.
The Roldosistische party had their support initially, especially in the informal settlement resulting from poor neighborhoods of the largest city in Ecuador, Guayaquil. Bucaram won here followers by promising infrastructure (electricity, water, roads, schools, etc. ) for this quarter and a populist distributed gifts.
He was elected mayor of Guayaquil in 1984, but fled to Panama already in September 1985 after he was convicted of high treason against the originating also from Guayaquil Ecuadorian President León Febres Cordero and charged with defamation of the national armed forces. He returned in 1987 back to a candidate in the presidential elections in which he was defeated as a candidate with the second most votes in the first round in the second round Rodrigo Borja (ID).
Bucarams sister Elsa was elected at the same time held mayoral elections for mayor of Guayaquil. She held office from 1988 to 1991, when she fled into exile for embezzlement to Panama from prosecution. Abdala Bucaram, an indictment had been dropped because of similar allegations against the 1990 candidate in the presidential elections in 1992 and finished with 22 % of votes in the second ballot the third place. In the presidential elections of 1996 Bucaram ran again and sat down in the second round against the candidate of the Partido Social Cristiano, Jaime Nebot, by. This was attributable also be the motto La fuerza de los pobres (engl. "The Power of the Poor" ) led campaign in, in which he had decided, among other highly subsidized housing programs that were generally considered to be not feasible.
Contrary to its extensive social reform program ruled Bucaram more neoliberal in the interests of the entrepreneurs of his social environment. His presidency, however, was more influenced by unpredictable actions of the President and nepotism than -planned policy. It lasted just 186 days. He was eventually deposed by Parliament after it came to major social protests against the planned abolition of subsidies for electricity and gas and the generally circulating corruption, embezzlement and Nepotismusvorwürfe. Bucaram fled again to Panama, where he still lives today. Although for some years he no longer is an official president is still the leading head of his party.
In the presidential elections of 1998 the multimillionaire Alvaro Noboa ran for PRE and defeated in the second round Jamil Mahuad ( DP. After the election fell out Bucaram and Noboa, whereupon Noboa founded his own party, the Partido Acción Nacional Renovador Institucional ( PRIAN ).
In 2002 came Abdala Bucaram brother Jacobo as a presidential candidate and received 11.9 % only the sixth most votes. In the simultaneous elections to the National Congress of the PRE was mixed with 15 seats second largest party (behind the Partido Social Cristiano ). The party was instrumental in helping to decide unconstitutional in December 2004, the National Congress, the replacement of 27 of the 31 judges of the Supreme Court post. The appointment of a new Supreme Court with PRE, PRIAN and the party of the incumbent president Gutiérrez, PSP, related judges meant that the existing charges against Abdala Bucaram was declared null and void and this was able to return to Ecuador. But it also led to large protests that eventually ended in the dissolution of the Supreme Court, the fall of President Gutiérrez and the renewed flight Bucarams to Panama. Several members of the PRE then left the party or were expelled from the Congress, so that the parliamentary group still consisted of ten members in October 2006.
Last election results ( 2004, 2006, 2009)
After the 2004 regional elections, the PRE prefects of the provinces of El Oro and Los Ríos and, since March 2006 the Prefect of the province of Sucumbios. He is the mayor of 21 of the 219 canton capitals and ten more in coalition with other parties. 19 Of the 21 ruled by PRE - mayors cities are located in the coastal region ( 6 Manabí, Los Ríos 5, 4 Guayas, El Oro Esmeraldas 3 and 1) and two in the Amazon province of Sucumbios. Most of them are small towns. The largest of a mayor of the city is ruled PRE Santa Rosa in the province of El Oro with 45,000 inhabitants. In Guayaquil, the PRE has to be evaluated, as chaotic mayoral tenures of Abdala Bucaram and Elsa only the third largest party behind the Partido Social Cristiano, and recently Álvaro Noboas PRIAN.
Candidate in the presidential election of 2006 was Fernando Rosero, a lawyer from Guayaquil. He received the first ballot on 15 October 2.1% of the vote and not moved into the second round. In the concurrent parliamentary elections PRE lost - probably due to the well -wing populist parties PRIAN ( Álvaro Noboa ) and PSP ( by Lucio Gutiérrez ) - and received only six seats. Overall, the party received about 8.4 percent of the vote. In their stronghold, the province of Guayas, the party received 12.3 percent of the vote. Your best result they achieved in the province of Esmeraldas, where she became the second largest party with 15.7 percent of the vote. Among the elected representatives are the entertainment show host Gabriela Pazmino, wife of Bucarám - son Dalo, and Jaime Jairala, former TV journalist. The latter, however, is now an independent MP.