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Correa and French President Francois Hollande, 7 November 2013 Rafael Correa with Pope Francis, 6 July 2015 Correa and President of Argentina Mauricio Macri, 10 December 2015. General elections were held in Ecuador on 17 February 2013 to elect the President, the National Assembly, Provincial Assemblies and members of the Andean Parliament.
Ecuador goes to the polls on Feb. 9, at the end of a truncated term for President Daniel Noboa, who was elected in 2023 for just 18 months after his predecessor called early elections to escape ...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's top court ordered former President Rafael Correa on Wednesday to stand trial for his alleged role in the 2012 botched kidnapping of an opposition lawmaker.
Correa blamed opposition-party members of the Council for Citizen Participation of not fighting corruption adequately. [9] Correa's older brother Fabricio, an engineer and president of Aplitec SA, is alleged to have received government contracts on which he collected about $700 million and overcharged by about $140 million.
[31] Correa would also say to Lasso, "you should have been dismissed and imprisoned since the Pandora Papers scandal." [32] Former president Lenín Moreno asked for calm within the country to prevent a repetition of the results of the February 2023 local elections, which had been a major victory for Correa's party. He also called for "unity ...
Over the years, his scathing and meticulously documented corruption accusations – levele. Fernando Villavicencio, the Ecuadorean presidential candidate gunned down in Quito on Wednesday, was no ...
Shortly after the National Assembly was dissolved, Villavicencio announced his candidacy for president of Ecuador in the 2023 election. [20] He focused on the growing corruption, violence in the country, and environmental protection. [22] [23] During his campaign, he called Ecuador a "narco state" due to the rise in gang-related violence. [22]
President Donald Trump dismissed David Huitema from his role as director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) on Monday. Huitema was nominated by former President Joe Biden and was sworn ...