Ecuador president Daniel Noboa – a business heir who has gained a new term on Sunday for a surprising broad margin – can have difficulty approving bills in the country’s divided national assembly, where his rival’s coalition in the elections is close to the majority.
Your mother – doctor and parliamentary Annabella Azín – may be a large part of the solution if he is willing to assume some political risk.
Azub, 63, was elected to the Assembly in February with more votes than any other candidate, which puts her in the dispute to be elected president of the house when the new legislature begins on May 14.
Noboa National Democratic Action Party parliamentarians said Azín would be a great choice to lead the assembly and said he would be willing to it.
Azín is well known in Ecuador for his decades of work as the face of the philanthropic initiative of the rich Noboa family, the crusade for a new humanity, which offers medical assistance and free medicines, especially in rural areas.
Her husband – Noboa’s father – is Álvaro Noboa, whose business empire has expanded from bananas export to dozens of other companies. Alvaro tried unsuccessfully to the presidency five times, sometimes with Azín as his vice presidential candidate. The couple has four children.
Having an ally nearby running the assembly sessions or driving the most important committees can help the party of Noboa approve legislation to reinforce security and attract more private investments to the oil sector, among other priorities.
His party has 66 chairs, although two of his parliamentarians said that negotiations with smaller parties are underway and that he can already count on three more vacancies as part of his block.
The socialist citizens’ revolution has 67 chairs and made an informal coalition agreement with the Pachakutik indigenous party, which has nine chairs, which puts them to a chair to form a majority among the 151 parliamentarians.
But the citizens’ revolution may be cracked after his presidential candidate, Luisa González, lost to Noboa. She asked for a recount of votes, while other party leaders and Pachakutik, as well as external observers, recognized Noboa’s victory.
Azín as President of the Assembly could be more an obstacle than a help to Noboa, said political analyst Alfredo Espinosa.
“Symbolically, it would be significant,” he said. “But politically, it would be a mistake – it cannot be that the child is the head of the executive branch and the mother, the head of the Legislature.”
“This would not be very democratic and create serious doubts about the role that the Assembly will play,” Espinosa added.
Azín may not agree to apply for office to avoid charges of injustice, said Francis Romero of the click Research research company.
In any case, the party of Noboa will likely guarantee the presidency of the Assembly and its socialist rivals-founded by former President Rafael Correa-will need to carefully think about how to approach their opposition role, the researcher said.
“If the corresponding movement in the Assembly thinks it can oppose everything the president does, he will be marching to his end,” said Romero.
If she is elected President of the Assembly, Azín will place the ceremonial presidential range on her son when he takes office on May 24.
This content was originally published in Ecuador: Noboa will have difficulty with assembly, but your mother can help on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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