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Right Winger Submits Bid for Ecuadorean Presidential Elections

  • Five-time presidential candidate and right-wing billionaire Alvaro Noboa announces his 2017 presidential bid.

    Five-time presidential candidate and right-wing billionaire Alvaro Noboa announces his 2017 presidential bid. | Photo: Reuters

Published 2 March 2016
Opinion

Businessman Alvaro Noboa to submit 273,000 signatures to the country's electoral council to form a new political party ahead of the 2017 presidential elections.

Ecuadorean business magnate and right-wing politician Alvaro Noboa will submit Wednesday a petition with over 200,000 signatures to the National Electoral Council (CNE) in order to request approval to form a new political party known as the Forward Ecuadorean Forward.

The group's provisional director, Wilson Sanchez, announced that if approved, the political entity aims to participate in the 2017 presidential elections with Noboa as their front-runner.

For a political party or movement to be approved at least 175,000 verified signatures are needed, which means Noboa will have no problems inscribing his party.

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Noboa, who placed fifth in the 2013 presidential elections with just 3 percent of the vote, has also repeatedly called for President Correa’s resignation. The five-time Ecuadorean presidential candidate ran unsuccessfully during the 1998, 2002, 2006, 2009 and 2013 presidential elections as a member of the Ecuadorean Institutional Renewal Party of National Action, or PRIAN.

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In 2014, PRIAN was stripped of its right to register as a political party after failing to obtain 5 percent of the national votes in two consecutive elections (legislative in 2013 and municipal in 2014).

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