On May 24, the day he took office as Ecuador’s new president, Guillermo Lasso, was seen leaving the ceremony next to Guadalupe Llori, indigenous leader and newly elected president of the National Assembly. Lasso, a conservative politician and former banker, had won the runoff against Andrés Arauz, the candidate supported by the political movement of former president Rafael Correa, who had governed the country between 2007 and 2017. Yet, Ecuador’s new political landscape offers a chance to move beyond the polarization between Correa supporters (Correístas) and opponents (Anti-Correístas). A key sociopolitical force in this regard is the indigenous movement and its political organization, Pachakutik.
Author: Andrea De Iulio
Andrea De Iulio is a Bachelor’s student of Political Science at Goethe University in Frankfurt. From February to May 2021, she did an internship at PRIF’s research department “Intrastate conflict”, where she researched on the success of the indigenous political party, Pachakutik, in context of the last general elections in Ecuador.
