Advance (Ecuador)
Political party in Ecuador
The Advance Political Party (Spanish: Partido Político Avanza), also known simply as Avanza, is an Ecuadorian political party, founded in 2012 as a personal political platform of Ramiro González Jaramillo, as a personal political platform. After González fled the country in 2017 amid corruption scandals, the party was restructured to the right-wing under new leadership.
History
Party under Ramiro González
Following the decline of the Democratic Left, a faction of the party, led by Ramiro González Jaramillo, founded a new party, called Advance, with the goal of updating the doctrinal principles of the ID's social democracy to the current context, although in practice, the nascent party served as González's personal political platform. As Ramiro González was at that time an ally of Rafael Correa's government, the party supported Correa's re-election in the 2013 presidential election, while in the legislative election it participated with its own candidates, winning 5 seats in the National Assembly.
In November 2013, the party suffered its first crisis, which led to hundreds of disaffiliations due to disputes over candidates for the 2014 local elections. In those elections, Avanza won 36 mayoralties and the prefecture of Imbabura, making it the second-largest political force in the country in terms of the number of elected mayors. It subsequently formed the ruling coalition Frente UNIDOS (United Front), until González's departure from the Correa administration, after which Avanza left the coalition in April 2015.
Ramiro González and the party went into opposition, with González participating in a January 2016 political meeting of opposition politicians led by Christian Social Party leader Jaime Nebot. Following that meeting, Avanza joined La Unidad, a political coalition headed by Nebot; however, in October 2016, the party abandoned that alliance, withdrawing from the 2017 presidential election. Avanza did participate in the parallel legislative election, with Ramiro González heading the national list; however, in this election, the party obtained only 2.2% of the vote, failing to gain any seats in parliament.
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