DECISION. Celi head the list of national candidates in this alliance.
Iran with joint lists to the Assembly. Celi head the list of national candidates.
Saturday is expected to SUMA movements and CREO formally sign the electoral alliance ratified on Monday by the national director of SUMA, Guillermo Celi. The leader said that it is an agreement to support the presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso and go for elections in joint national and provincial assembly lists and to the Andean Parliament.
However, this alliance does not mean they want to put the vice presidential candidate, said Celi. "That is a decision that we handle with great consistency, responsibility and respect. Who will decide the nomination is Guillermo Lasso, is it consistent. He has to be made compatible with it the binomial "he said.
Since the beginning of all this pre-election process, SUMA was one of the founders of The Unit (with PSC, Avanza and Podemos), who ended up candidatizar Cynthia Viteri of the Social Christian; and after his retirement, he began talks with Paco Moncayo, presidential candidate of the Democratic Left and CREO.
Celi explains that we decided to go into partnership with this latest move is a sign of consistency by not submitting their own own candidate for the presidency, which would have meant, create, disperse the electorate and make correísmo game.
"We share (with CREO) values and principles such as democracy, freedom, the right to generate Ecuador with independence and autonomy of the branches of government, a fight against corruption and impunity," he said. He added that it will be an important contribution to CREO because they have a whole national structure so that two join forces to provide a new alternative for a change in Ecuador.
They seek their own alliances
Wilma Andrade, president of the Democratic Left, said SUMA respect the decision and added that if they decided to go with CREO is because they had more programmatic coincidences with the center right and center left.
"We had always talked about that it is essential to speak of a programmatic agreement, a legislative proposal so as Government to see if we have matches," Andrade said. He added that it is a coherent decision SUMA, but that Democratic Left will always remain open to dialogue with other organizations both at provincial and national level.
In this sense Andrade added that advance talks with Democratic Center, whose leader is Jimmy Jairala. "We have really intensified our dialogue, I think are positive , " he said.(HCR)
The legislative
The presidential candidate of CREO, Guillermo Lasso, confirmed that in this process of alliance with SUMA, the list of candidates for National Assembly's lead director that movement Guillermo Celi, and as a second Mae Montaño list, CREO, which will for re-election. They would join Paul Carrasco, Podemos.
Celi said he is determined to take on the challenge in the instance decided by the organizations of the alliance and anticipated what will be the joint legislative agenda to win seats. Act proposes a tax moratorium, prepare a referendum to let the people decide on constitutional amendments, among other topics.
