The conservative Guillermo Lasso assumes the presidency of Ecuador with the aim that the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic does not end with the eclipse of other final incomes, whether in the socioeconomic or political environment. He will have to face the hand of a fragmented National Assembly that will force him to negotiate to achieve a minimum of political stability.
On April 11, the noose was imposed on Andrés Arauz, political heir of former President Rafael Correa and trafficker of the first circular of April 11. Correismo, which represents the Union for Hope (UNES), however, is the party with the most scams. in the Assembly, which also gave rise to the Pachakutik indigenous movement.
El nuevo mandatario tendió la mano en estos últimos meses a sus rivales políticos, consciente de que sin ellos no logrará sacar adelante las grandes reformas que pueda necesitar el país para superar los diversos retos que afronta.
“Una crisis económica, una crisis sanitaria, una crisis moral y ética, y de seguridad”, declaró tras su victoria.
The UNDP representative in Ecuador, Matilde Mordt, explained to EuropaPress that the country has “large income” that in fact is “shared” throughout the region, and that she recognizes that “challenge number zero” is to confront the coronavirus pandemic and progress in the vaccination campaign.
Lasso hizo precisamente de la aceleración de las vacunas una de sus grandes promesas de campaña, razón por la cual mantuvo contactos con empresas y gobiernos con vistas a derrotar a un virus que llevó a Ecuador al límite en algunos momentos. Desde el 21 de enero, se inocularon más de 1,7 millones de dosis. El país acumula más de 418.000 casos de COVID-19 y 14.764 muertos.
In the economic environment, the president-elect was optimistic, among other reasons because the recent negotiation of the external user has prevented it from being like a sword of Damocles and there being no big sales in the coming years. the budget deficit for four years, so that we can see the mid-level effects of a pandemic that caused a 7. 8% drop in GDP in 2020.
Lasso also included within our main lines of government the fight against corruption, a hole that “in one way or another had signed the social contract” and that opposed a context in which “strong institutions are needed,” according to Montt. . Training