Guayaquil (Ecuador).- Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa (2007 – 2017) broke with Marcela Agui\u00f1aga, prefect of the province of Guayas, whose capital is Guayaquil, this Tuesday. Agui\u00f1aga came to local power with the support of the correista movement Revoluci\u00f3n Ciudadana (RC), and Correa told her that she should better go to “dialogue” with the current president, Daniel Noboa.<\/p>\n
“Dear Marcela: You are too important and wise for the current RC5. Just go and talk to Noboa, we will NOT do it,” wrote Correa on his X social media account after Agui\u00f1aga assured on Monday in an interview that he was considering his continuity in the party, in view of a possible re-election to which he would run in 2027.<\/p>\n
“I will remember what I have been for the RC, I have been involved in politics since this party started. I have endured the good times and the bad. I feel a lot of nostalgia leaving the organization that I have helped build,” said the prefect, who was also the national leader of the movement before the former presidential candidate Luisa Gonz\u00e1lez took that position, and has been one of the most important figures in the organization.<\/p>\n
“Even when very few of us remained, I kept going; when many of us were pursued, I stayed. I didn’t flee; I stayed here in the country, facing it. So I think it’s important to give myself a space for deep reflection because I want to make decisions that don’t come from my anger and rage, but from the deep rationality that my province deserves,” added Agui\u00f1aga on the program De Lunes a Lunes.<\/p>\n
“Marcela: Don’t reflect on ANYTHING. I insist: you are too important and wise for us. Surely with Lourdes Tib\u00e1n and your -deserved- political capital you will win the re-election. You are a very valuable woman. But don’t count on us: a gram of principles is worth more than tons of work. A hug and always the affection”, Correa wrote in another publication on X.<\/p>\n
The former president had already strongly criticized Agui\u00f1aga on November 20th, when the prefect met in Guayaquil with her counterpart from the Andean province of Cotopaxi, Lourdes Tib\u00e1n, from the indigenous Pachakutik party and openly anti-Correa.<\/p>\n
Agui\u00f1aga is also part of a group of local authorities from correismo such as the prefects of Pichincha, Paola Pab\u00f3n; of Manab\u00ed, Leonardo Orlando, and of Azuay, Juan Crist\u00f3bal Lloret; and the mayor of Quito, Pabel Mu\u00f1oz, who asked Correa for a renewal in the party after Gonz\u00e1lez lost the last two presidential elections to Noboa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Guayaquil (Ecuador).- Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa (2007 – 2017) broke with Marcela Agui\u00f1aga, prefect of the province of Guayas, whose capital is Guayaquil, this Tuesday. Agui\u00f1aga came to local power with the support of the correista movement Revoluci\u00f3n Ciudadana (RC), and Correa told her that she should better go to “dialogue” with the current […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24l4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Arelis Suero","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-cropped-Diseno-sin-titulo-41-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}