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Red Ética y Democracia (RED ) is a moderate left-wing political movement founded in 2005 in Ecuador, led by Leon Roldós. In the parliamentary elections of 2006, she won five parliamentary seats, including four in electoral alliances with the Izquierda Democrática (ID) at the provincial level. The Chairman Leon Roldós finished as joint candidate of the RED and ID in the presidential election in the same year with 14.8% in fourth. RED was represented in the Constituent Assembly with four seats, but could not move into the National Assembly in 2009.

History

The party was formed in 2005 as an election platform of León Roldós for the presidential election of 2006. Roldós since the 1980s, a well-known left-wing politicians in Ecuador, whose brother Jaime Roldós from 1979 in 1981 was president of the country until his death. Leon Roldós was in 1992 ( for the Socialist Party of Ecuador ) and 2002 (for the originally founded by Freddy Ehlers Movimiento Ciudadano Nuevo País ) presidential candidate was. 2002 Roldós was initially as a candidate of the Social Democratic party Izquierda Democrática (ID) or as a common candidate the latter belonged to the Socialist party, the Roldós been talking. Izquierda Democrática had finally decided, however, for its chairman Rodrigo Borja and against Roldós why this sought an independent candidacy and ultimately received more votes than Borja. Roldós distinguished himself during the campaign as a non-partisan figure of renewal and transparency and referred to his work as rector of the state university Guayaquil. He is still the most important representative sozialischer or social democratic tendencies in the market previously dominated by the conservative Partido Social Cristiano city Guayaquil. After the election victory of Rafael Correa in 2006 his party is working in many parts along with its politically oriented similarly Movimiento País, with Roldós but showed particular topics as a critic of Correa and the government party in the Constituent Assembly.