Creating Opportunities

Creating Opportunities

President	César Monge
Founder	Guillermo Lasso
Founded	January 2012
Headquarters	Av. Quito 2502 y Gomez Rendon;, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Ideology	Centrism^[1] Conservatism^[2]^[3] Social democracy^[1]
Political position	Centre-right^[4]^[5]
Seats in the National Assembly	11 / 137
Website
creo.com.ec
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Creating Opportunities (Spanish name Creando Oportunidades, CREO, the acronym also being the Spanish word for "I believe") is an Ecuadorian political movement founded in January 2012^[6] and participated in the 2013 presidential elections with Guillermo Lasso as their candidate for president.

Generally considered a centre-right conservative outfit, CREO's candidate ran on a centrist platform: his economic development model was mainly market-oriented and favoring entrepreneurship, but also promised state support to micro-entreprises and upgrading of education. Lasso promoted an independent judiciary and free speech (the opposition and civil rights organizations consider judicial autonomy and press freedom to be threatened under the administration of President Correa).^[1]

In the 2013 presidential election, Lasso was placed second with 22.7% of the votes, having been endorsed also by the centre-right Social Christian Party and the Madera de Guerrero movement of Guayaquil's mayor Jaime Nebot. In the simultaneous election for the National Assembly, the party won 11.4% of the votes and 11 out of 137 seats. Hence, it is the major oppositional force in parliament.

References

1 2 3 Palacio, Gustavo (12 February 2013), Ecuador: An Election Primer, Center for Strategic and International Studies
↑ Profiles: Ecuador's leading presidential candidates, Xinhua, 17 February 2013
↑ Glickhouse, Rachel (15 February 2013), In Ecuador, an Expected Third-Term Win for Correa, Americas Society – Council of the Americas
↑ Beittel, June S. (July 2013), "Ecuador: Political and Economic Conditions and U.S. Relations" (PDF), CRS Report for Congress, Congressional Research Service, p. 3
↑ Terryn, Tristan (26 February 2013), In Ecuador, a decisive victory for President Rafael Correa consolidates the 'Citizen's Revolution' (PDF), Policy Department, Directorate-General for External Policies, p. 1
↑ CNE habilitó Movimiento CREO

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Political parties in Ecuador

Parties in the National Assembly	PAIS Alliance (100) Creating Opportunities (11) Social Christian Party (6) Patriotic Society Party (5) Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country (5) Avanza Party (5) Ecuadorian Roldosist Party (1) United Society more action (1) Democratic Integration of Carchi (1) Peninsular Movement "believing in our people" (1) Autonomous Regional Movement (1)

Parties with no National Assembly seats	A New Option Alfarista Radical Front Communist Party of Ecuador Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun Concentration of People's Forces Conservative Party Democratic Left Democratic People's Movement Democratic Transformation Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party Ecuadorian Popular Revolutionary Union Freedom Party Institutional Renewal Party of National Action Movement Ecuador's Force Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador National Democratic Coalition National Liberation Provincial Integration Movement Socialist Party – Broad Front of Ecuador Solidarity Fatherland Movement Ethics and Democracy Network Workers' Party of Ecuador

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