Among those affected are Fuerza Ecuador, led by Dalo Bucaram; and Unión Ecuatoriana, created by former prosecutor Washington Pesántez.
This November 27, 2021, the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that canceled the legal status of five political organizations.
The reason is that they did not reach the minimum percentage of votes in the sectional elections of 2019 and the presidential elections of 2021.
The plenary session of the CNE knew eight legal reports in which the fulfillment of requirements to maintain the registration of two parties and six political movements was analyzed.
With the affirmative vote of the councilors Enrique Pita, José Cabrera and Diana Atamaint, and the vote against Elena Nájera, it was resolved to cancel the registration of the Fuerza EC list 10 party, which is led by Dalo Bucaram.
Also from the United Ecuadorian movement list 4, founded by Edwin Moreno, brother of the former president of the Republic, Lenín Moreno; of Social Justice, list 11, which is chaired by Jimmy Salazar. This political group wanted to nominate Álvaro Noboa in the last presidential elections of 2021.
Likewise, the registration of the Ecuadorian Union movement list 19, which was made up of the former nation’s attorney Washington Pesántez, was extinguished.
This movement served to catapult the Mayor of Quito to Jorge Yunda.
The Concertación Lista 17 movement, which was promoted by César Montúfar, was also canceled.
According to numeral 3 of article 327 of the Code of Democracy, a party or movement can be canceled if any of the following cases are not met: obtain 4% of the votes in two different and consecutive multi-person elections at the national level; get at least three representatives to the National Assembly; reach at least 8% of mayoralties; get at least one councilor in at least 10% of the country’s cantons.
Other cases
Three other political organizations that were included in this analysis were Build List 25 (formerly Ruptura); the Ecuadorian Socialist Party (PSE) lists 17; and we can list 33.
However, the three they managed to avoid their extinction, upon filing the files, which was approved with the votes of the three aforementioned directors.
In the case of Construye, the legal report recommended to the plenary to cancel its registration, but at the beginning of the plenary session this Saturday, Vice President Enrique Pita motioned not to proceed under that criterion because the movement had not been registered six months before the 2019 sectional elections.
Political organizations canceled may appeal in last instance before the Contentious Electoral Tribunal (TCE). (JS)
IMPORTANT | Five national political organizations were canceled from the CNE Registry. pic.twitter.com/yUmMkM20e7
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