Popular Unity (Ecuador)

Popular Unity
Unidad Popular
DirectorGeovanni Atarihuana
Deputy DirectorMery Zamora
FoundedSeptember 27, 2014 (2014-09-27)
Preceded byMPD
HeadquartersManuel Larrea and Jose Riofrio, Quito
Membership199 945(2016)[1]
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism-Leninism
Revolutionary socialism
Anti-imperialism
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationPCMLE
Colours  Red
Seats in the National Assembly
1 / 137
Provincial Prefects
1 / 23
Mayors
13 / 221
Website
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The Popular Unity Movement (UP) (in Spanish: Movimiento Unidad Popular) is an Ecuadorian political movement of the revolutionary left close to Marxism-Leninism to be conformed with the electoral wing of the Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador.[2] The party is a member of the National Agreement for Change.

It arose after the CNE removed the Democratic People's Movement from its legal status after declaring the existence of poor electoral results on the part of this party.[3] The members of the previous party formed Unidad Popular to replace the old MPD, in which they would continue their political work.[4][5]

The party has a special stronghold in the province of Esmeraldas, where they held the provincial government from 2005 to 2019.

  1. ^ "La CC aún no tramita el pedido de aclaración por supuesta estafa". El Telegrafo (in European Spanish). 6 September 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Castigo Divino: Geovanni Atarihuana & Patricio Donoso". La Posta. January 9, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  3. ^ "El CNE ratifica la eliminación del Prian, PRE, MPD y Ruptura". Ecuavisa (in Spanish). 4 August 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  4. ^ Unidad Popular - Principios Archived 2016-12-06 at the Wayback Machine Consultada el 3 de enero del 2015 "Surgimos de la trayectoria revolucionaria del Movimiento Popular Democrático MPD, somos el legado histórico de JAIME HURTADO, representamos la continuación de su lucha."
  5. ^ "MPD desaparece y pasa a ser en Unidad Popular". Diario El Mercurio - Cuenca Ecuador (in European Spanish). 28 September 2014. Retrieved 18 April 2017.