The political party of Ecuador's ex-President Rafael Correa on Saturday named former lawmaker Luisa Gonzalez as its candidate for presidential elections in August.
Ecuadoreans go to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect a successor to President Guillermo Lasso - who is not running - and choose the 137 members of the country's National Assembly.in mid-May under a constitutional quirk known as "two-way death" amid an impeachment process that was pushed by lawmakers from Correa's party, Citizen Revolution.
Gonzalez is a lawyer, held positions in the public sector between 2016 and 2017 in the Correa government and was a federal lawmaker for the province of Manabi.Arauz, a 38-year-old economist, ran against Lasso in Ecuador's 2021 elections. While he was unsuccessful, Citizen Revolution won 47 seats in the National Assembly and secured a majority alongside allied parties to oppose Lasso's government.
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