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Ecuadorian Roldosist Party Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano | |
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| Founder | Abdalá Bucaram |
| Founded | December 1982 |
| Dissolved | 3 July 2014 |
| Succeeded by | Fuerza Ecuador |
| Headquarters | Guayaquil, Ecuador |
| Ideology | Populism[1][2] |
| Regional affiliation | COPPPAL |
| Colors | Red, yellow, white, black |
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The Ecuadorian Roldosist Party (PRE) (Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano) was a populist political party in Ecuador. The party was named after former President Jaime Roldós. It was founded after Roldós' death by his brother-in-law Abdalá Bucaram as a more leftish spin-off from the Concentration of People's Forces.[3] Bucaram was elected President in 1996 but was impeached the following year. Though Jaime Roldós's brother León Roldós is still very involved in Ecuadorian politics, he is not a member of the Roldosist Party.
At the legislative elections on 20 October 2002, the party won 15 out of 100 seats. Its candidate Jacobo Bucaram Ortiz won 11.9% of the vote in the presidential elections of the same day, coming in 6th place. At the legislative elections of October 15, 2006, the party was badly defeated, winning 6 of 100 seats in the Congress. Its presidential candidate in 1998, Álvaro Noboa, who was narrowly defeated in that election, ran as a presidential candidate in 2002, 2006 and 2009 for another party and participated unsuccessfully in a runoff both times. The Roldosist Party's own presidential candidate for the 2006 election, Fernando Rosero received less than 2% of the vote.
In 2014, the party's legal status was withdrawn by the National Electoral Council. A successor party, Fuerza Ecuador, was established in its place.[4]
- ^ De La Torre, Carlos (2010), Populist Seduction in Latin America (Second ed.), Ohio University Press, p. 112
- ^ Madrid, Raúl L. (2012), The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America, Cambridge University Press, pp. 94, 101
- ^ Conniff, Michael L. (2012-07-31). Populism in Latin America: Second Edition. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-5709-2.
- ^ The PRE reinvents itself in the group Fuerza.EC El Comercio, 20 October 2014