León Roldós Aguilera

Leon Roldós Aguilera ( born July 21, 1942 in Guayaquil ) is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician. He was from 1981 to 1984 vice- president of his country and was a candidate in 1992, 2002 and 2006 unsuccessfully for president.

Roldós ' Father Santiago Roldós Soria was a politician and practiced in the 1940s, high government offices. Among other things, he was governor of the province of Guayas, Minister of Social Affairs and 1946/47, Consul General of Ecuador in Buenos Aires where Leon Roldós started school. His mother died at his birth from internal bleeding. His father later married the sister of his first wife. In 1947 the family returned to Ecuador, where Roldós 1960, the high school was.

He studied law in the University of Guayaquil while working as a teacher in urban schools. In 1969 he completed his studies as a lawyer. 1969/70 he was secretary of the populist mayor of Guayaquil, Assad Bucaram, the founder and leader of the party de Fuerzas Populares Concentración. Later Roldos was a lawyer and taught at universities in Guayaquil. He worked in the first function, among others, for various banks and banking supervision and was in second function temporarily Dean of the Law Faculty of the Universidad Laica Vicente Rocafuerte in Guayaquil.

1979 his brother Jaime Roldós was elected as a candidate of an election alliance of the Fuerzas Populares de Concentración with the Christian Democratic Popular Democracia President of Ecuador. Leon Roldós 1979 Chairman of the Junta Monetaria who oversaw, among other things, the currency reserves of the country and the Central Bank in the sequence.

Jaime Roldós died on 24 May in 1981 in an airplane crash. The Vice President Osvaldo Hurtado then became his successor. New Vice President of the National Congress certain Roldós León, who held this office until the end of the legislature in 1984. Roldós and Hurtado were particularly on policies repeatedly disagree. Among other things, Roldós turned against the " Sucretisierung " of the foreign debt of Ecuador, a measure which implied that the Ecuadorian government took over the losses that private companies were received by the exchange rate risk in foreign borrowings.

He then worked again as a lawyer and consultant as well as a university lecturer and has published several books. From 1992 to 1996 he was a board member of the bank Banco de Estado, 1998-2002 Member of Parliament for the province of Guayas in the National Congress.

On 31 October 1994 Roldós was elected rector of the university Guayaquil and had this position for two terms (until 2004) held. His rectorate is widely attested that it had managed in a transparent and led to the improvement of study conditions and prestige of the state university.

Roldós was 1992 ( for the Socialist Party of Ecuador ) and 2002 ( as an independent candidate of the Movimiento Ciudadano Nuevo País ) presidential candidate. In 1992 he finished third in the first round in sixth place; In 2002 he received 15.4 percent in the first ballot the third- largest number of votes and did not reach again the second ballot. In the 2006 elections he stood as joint candidate of his party, founded in 2005 Red Ética y Democracia and the established social-democratic Izquierda Democrática. In the voting intention polls, he was long in the first place, but was overtaken just before the election of Rafael Correa, who has been nominated by its own election platform and the Socialist Party. In the elections, he finished only surprising fourth place, which raised doubts about the quality of pre-election polls, which apparently rural lower classes were too little consideration arise in Ecuador.

Since November 2007, he was one of 24 national deputies in the Constituent Assembly of Ecuador in 2007/ 08, which gave the country a new constitution, adopted in September 2008 for his party RED.

Roldós was married to the late 2005 Mercedes María Icaza Olivera and has a son, Xavier León.