The political movement of the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, said on Tuesday that it will not present candidates for the presidency of the country or the National Assembly in the anticipated elections, nor will they support other applications or parties at the national level.
The CREO Movement’s announcement, Creating Opportunities, comes days after Lasso, a former conservative banker, declined to participate as a candidate to the presidency of the country after dissolved the National Assembly and advanced the general elections in the country.
Ecuadorians will go to the polls on August 20 to elect a presidential binomial and 137 members of the National Assembly for the remainder of the period until May 2025. If the case arises, a second presidential round would take place on October 15.
“This is a waiting period in which we will redouble our efforts in the governmental sphere, but we prepare with nobility, with ideological and intellectual solvency and, above all, with principles to return in the year 2025,” said Esteban Bernal, president of the CREO movement, to journalists.
Lasso dissolved the legislature on May 17, under a constitutional quirk known as “cross death,” amid impeachment proceedings after lawmakers accused him of embezzlement in an oil contract, something the president has always has denied.
Lasso governs through decrees since he dissolved the National Assembly.
Bernal said that members of the CREO movement have the freedom to vote for the candidate of their choice, but they cannot support those who “did not respect the Constitution and the laws.”
Political parties have until June 13 to officially register their candidates.
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