Institutional Renewal Party of National Action
The Partido Acción Nacional Renovador Institucional (Spanish National Institutional Renewal Party action PRIAN ) is a conservative- populist party in Ecuador. Its founder and well-known representative is the entrepreneur Álvaro Noboa, who is regarded as the richest man in Ecuador. Chairman of the Party 's Vicente Taiano, in the 2006 elections vice presidential candidate Noboas.
The party was, after Noboa, who was inferior to the Christian Jamil Mahuad in the presidential election in 1998 as the candidate of the populist Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano ( PRE) in the runoff, fell out with the founders and leaders of the PRE, Abdala Bucaram and founded his own party. It was officially founded in April 2002 and entered in October of the same year with the presidential and parliamentary elections. Noboa reached as the leading candidate in the first ballot with 17.4 % of the vote the second best result and defeated in the second round with 46% of Lucio Gutiérrez. In the parliamentary elections, the party immediately secured 10 seats and became the fourth largest party in the National Congress. After the 2004 regional elections, the party Prefect of the province of Imbabura and the mayors of 19 of the 219 Canton main cities of the country, including Latacunga, capital of the Cotopaxi Province.
In the presidential election of 2006 Noboa went to again and reached on the first ballot surprising 26.8 % of the vote, the best result of all candidates. In the second round he was defeated, however, for the third time, this time the leftist Rafael Correa.
At the beginning of the legislative period 2007-2011 the PRIAN presented at the National Congress with 28 MPs of the largest MEPs block and Jorge Cevallos also the President of Parliament. Overall, the party received about 24.4 percent of the votes in the presidential elections, held in parallel to the 2006 parliamentary elections. In the most populous provinces in the coastal region, Manabí and Guayas, it reached 34.3 and 33.7 percent, and was the strongest party; in the most populous province of the Andean region, the data demonstrated a 20.2 percent second place. Overall, the PRIAN was in five of the 22 provinces ( Guayas, Manabí, Carchi, Imbabura and Esmeraldas ) strongest party. The elected members Annabella Azin, Wife Álvaro Noboas, received the nation's most personal votes in the province of Guayas.
In the wake of the political crisis surrounding the calling of a referendum on a new Constituent Assembly, during which voted Members of PRIAN for the dismissal of the Chairman of the Supreme Electoral Court, all but three members of the PRIAN as well as most MPs were the rest of the action voting parties declared by the electoral court for obstruction of an ongoing election process to be deposed. The unweaned deputies were Cevallos and Azin. Once in connection with this matter, the term of office of judges of the Constitutional Court, which had declared the dismissal of deputies to be invalid, terminated and declared void already been, retained the dismissal de facto validity. The homepage of the National Congress therefore dismissed in June 2007, only five formally the PRIAN belonging to MPs, the remaining spare MPs were listed as non-attached. Congress President Cevallos was expelled on 10 June 2007 due to his inadequate from the perspective of party behavior regarding the deposed deputies from the party.
The party enters like all populist parties in the country as a social reformer and also stresses the Christian orientation of their leader. In particular, a comprehensive housing program for poor families, which is already being carried out in the small of Noboas private foundation Cruzada Nueva Humanity, one of the measures advocated in the case of government takeover. The program of the party is otherwise severe effect on private business initiative. Since the candidates mainly Familiar Noboas and entrepreneurs are the party by many as klientilistisch and viewed through aligned to the business community especially the coastal region.
Noboa is known to result in the most expensive election campaigns of all candidates, in which he distributed among others in slums wheelchairs, computers, food and cash.