Ecuador: Guadalupe Llori elected president of the Assembly, a first for the indigenous party
Guadalupe Llori is the first MP from the indigenous party to become president of the National Assembly.
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After its candidate narrowly missed the second round of the presidential election, the indigenous movement Pachakutik is for the first time at the head of a high office of the Ecuadorian state.
With 71 votes out of 137, Guadalupe Llori was elected President of the National Assembly for the next two years.
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Eric Samson
From prison to the presidency of the Assembly, this is the summary of the career of Guadalupe Llori. Twelve years ago, the 58-year-old woman was accused of terrorism and sabotage by the regime of former President
Rafael Correa
for organizing a strike against oil companies in the Amazon. She was arrested in December 2008 along with 22 other people. His conditions of detention in
Quito
will be criticized by many human rights organizations.
Recently elected MP for the Amazonian province of Orellana for
Pachakutik
, Guadalupe Llori began her political career more than 20 years ago by becoming mayor, then prefect.
After thanking
President-elect Guillermo Lasso
who congratulated him, Llori insisted on the need for political agreements to ensure a minimum of governability in the country.
And Lasso will need it.
Quest for a majority
For the first time since 2009, the elected president will not have a legislative majority on May 24 at the start of his mandate.
Its 12 deputies are not even numerous enough to form a parliamentary group and it has just been released by the Christian Social Party, its ally in the recent presidential election.
The main legislative forces are on the one hand the 49 deputies of former President Correa, for the time being allied to the 17 deputies of the right-wing Christian Social Party.
And on the other, the 44 indigenous legislators and the Democratic Left Party who for the moment are supported by the party of the elected president and some independents.
A building still too fragile to reassure Guillermo Lasso.
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