Creating Opportunities

Creating Opportunities
Creando Oportunidades (CREO)
President César Monge
Founder Guillermo Lasso
Founded January 2012
Headquarters Av. Quito 2502 y Gomez Rendon, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Ideology National conservatism[1][2]
Ecuadorian nationalism
Economic liberalism
Right-wing populism
Political position Right-wing[3][4]
Regional affiliation Union of Latin American Parties
Seats in the National Assembly
32 / 137
Website
creo.com.ec

Creating Opportunities (Spanish name Creando Oportunidades, CREO, the acronym also being the Spanish word for "I believe") is an Ecuadorian political movement founded in January 2012[5] and participated in the 2013 presidential elections with Guillermo Lasso as their candidate for president.

Generally considered a centre-right conservative outfit, CREO's candidate ran on a centrist platform: his economic development model was mainly market-oriented and favoring entrepreneurship, but also promised state support to micro-entreprises and upgrading of education. Lasso promoted an independent judiciary and free speech (the opposition and civil rights organizations consider judicial autonomy and press freedom to be threatened under the administration of President Correa).[6]

In the 2013 presidential election, Lasso was placed second with 22.7% of the votes, having been endorsed also by the Social Christian Party and the Madera de Guerrero movement of Guayaquil's mayor Jaime Nebot. In the simultaneous election for the National Assembly, the party won 11.4% of the votes and 11 out of 137 seats. Hence, it is the major opposition force in parliament.

In the 2014 local elections, CREO obtained 22 mayorships, including those of provincial capitals such as Azogues, Riobamba and Tena, besides the Loja prefecture. In that same year, CREO lead the creation of "Ecuador Compromise" (Compromiso Ecuador) formed by various opposition groups and guilds, and supported by several political figures from across the Ecuadorian political spectrum. The context of its creation was a government-sponsored proyect for a series of constitutional amendments by the National Assembly, which led to the opposition collective to unsuccessfully ask for a referendum on the matter, with special focus on the amendment that would pave the way for elected incumbents to seek indefinite reelection. In September 2016, CREO was admitted as member of the Union of Latin American Parties, the regional subsidiary of the International Democrat Union.[7]

For the 2017 general elections Lasso and his movement agreed with the SUMA party to form the "Alliance for Change" (Alianza por el Cambio) to run on an anti-Correa platform, along with several other smaller groups. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Profiles: Ecuador's leading presidential candidates, Xinhua, 17 February 2013
  2. ↑ Glickhouse, Rachel (15 February 2013), In Ecuador, an Expected Third-Term Win for Correa, Americas Society – Council of the Americas
  3. ↑ Beittel, June S. (July 2013), "Ecuador: Political and Economic Conditions and U.S. Relations" (PDF), CRS Report for Congress, Congressional Research Service, p. 3
  4. ↑ Terryn, Tristan (26 February 2013), In Ecuador, a decisive victory for President Rafael Correa consolidates the 'Citizen's Revolution' (PDF), Policy Department, Directorate-General for External Policies, p. 1
  5. ↑ CNE habilitó Movimiento CREO
  6. ↑ Palacio, Gustavo (February 12, 2013), Ecuador: An Election Primer, Center for Strategic and International Studies, archived from the original on December 3, 2013
  7. ↑ http://www.larepublica.ec/blog/politica/2016/09/10/creo-se-incorpora-a-la-union-de-partidos-latinoamericanos/
  8. ↑ http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2016/10/29/nota/5879212/alianza-cambio-nueva-plataforma-electoral-lasso


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