Of the 27 elected that the Pachakutik movement (list 18) obtained in the 2021 elections, this time for the early legislative elections next August, only one managed to stand for the same group. This is Isabel Enríquez Jaya, representative of the province of Zamora Chinchipe.

The division between the leadership of Pachakutik and the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) and the dissolution of the legislators of this bloc before the dissolution of the National Assembly contributed to the fact that some of the former members of the Assembly did not no longer stand for election. and their aspirations are disappointed.

Although the bloc arrived with 27 members in the assembly, it was gradually reducing its number of seats. The first to abandon it was the representative of Guayas Omar Cevallos, who later supported the government; then, the representative of Azuay, Bruno Segovia, who for the elections of August 20 will present himself to the National Assembly in the alliance Claro que se Puede, lists 2-17-20, led by the presidential candidate Yaku Pérez.

A sector of the seat aligned with the leader of the Conaie Leonidas Iza, that identified with the correísmo. This group was made up of Mireya Pazmiño, Ángel Maita, Fernando Cabascango, Dina Farinango and Peter Calo. Although Darwin Pereira and Joel Abad also participated less. None of them stood for re-election.

The other sector of the Pachakutik bloc, coordinated by Mario Ruiz Jácome, also had no luck in appointing the former legislators; Only Enríquez was registered, at the request of the provincial direction of Zamora Chinchipe.

She stressed that her candidacy is firm and that from the whole bloc she is the only former legislator who would return to Parliament, because “the bases of the province of Zamora have ratified it and there is support for it to conclude the things that remained in the middle path like the reform of the mining law, the organic code of food sovereignty and the law on disabilities”.

Although not for Pachakutik, two other former legislators from this political tent will intervene in the August elections for the Construye movement, list 25. They are the first candidate of the province of Azuay Sofía Sánchez Urgilés and Gissella Molina, in the province of Cotopaxi.

Marlon Santi, coordinator of Pachakutik, defends the presence of the movement and points out that it has registered candidates in all the provinces, except in one of the constituencies abroad: the United States and Canada.

They have not registered candidates for members of the National Assembly because, according to Santi, the National Electoral Council (CNE) has alleged internal problems in the Pachakutik Electoral Tribunal, but they have filed objections and are awaiting responses from the CNE.

The leader pointed out that the same cadres did not apply again because the coordinators of the movement recommended them to contribute to a new image of the members of the assembly in the provinces. This decision was also part of a debate within the national political council.

For the August 2023 elections, added Marlon Santi, they calculate that they will have at least between fourteen and fifteen provincial legislators. What affected was the non-registration of candidacies for the presidency of the Republic and for the National Assembly.

Regarding electoral support for the next presidential elections, leader Pachakutik reported that during the last political council of the movement, there was talk of supporting two presidential candidates, Xavier Hervas and Yaku Pérez, but that after deliberations and debates, there were 19 provinces that spoke in favor of the presidential candidate Yaku Pérez, of the alliance Claro that Puede, lists 2-17-20.

Santi is awaiting the decision of the Electoral Dispute Tribunal (TCE), which will have to decide whether the Pachakutik congress held in Pastaza on April 29 is valid or not regarding the elections of the national coordinator of this List 18 movement. (YO)