2024-07-14 17:40:25
While President Daniel Noboa attends protocol meetings with little information about their scope, Ecuadorian center-right movements are strengthening ties with international parties and spokespersons in view of the 2025 presidential campaign.
In a world where borders and distances are just a click away every day, the President of the Republic, Daniel Noboa, and its Government seem to have no international partners to support their proposals.
Although the president has made a significant number of tripsthe scope of his efforts is still awaiting results. Noboa has managed to hold state meetings with several leaders during his participation in the swearing-in ceremonies by Javier Milei in Argentina y Nayib Bukele of The Saviorbut no major agreements have been announced so far.
During his visits to Canada, Spain, Italia y France has held protocol meetings with the Heads of State of each nation, one can even list their encounters with the King of Spain Felipe VI and the Pope Franciscobut its agenda and possible agreements have not been made transparent according to analysts consulted by LA HORA.
On the other side of the spectrum, the former president Guillermo Lasso, the leader of the Build Movement, Maria Paula Romojust like him former Minister of Government, Henry Cucalon They are deploying an intense agenda of meetings and participations in international forums which demonstrate the desire to have international support for the electoral adventure that is coming in Ecuador.
Daniel Noboa must consolidate alliances outside the borders
In their seven months of management Noboa has made 10 trips internationalnot counting the trips made before assuming the Presidency of the Republic November 23, 2024.
Part of your presidential agenda Abroad, it has been developed in meetings with businessmen and investors from the countries visited, as well as supporting the migrant population of Ecuador in each country.
The presidential agenda and meetings have been kept secret and it is only known that the topics of security cooperation e economic inversion have been part of the conversations.
One of the destinations that has been in Noboa’s preferences has been Spain, where the president has achieved meetings with both the King Felipe VIthe head of state Pedro Sanchez and the leader of the opposition and the Spanish People’s Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
Noboa has also stepped on the territory of USA on several occasions, but has not been received by the Government authorities. President Joe Bidenalthough the chancellor Gabriela Sommerfeld if he had a meeting with the Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
In Ecuador, the commander of the U.S. Southern Command, Laura Richardson.
Other decisive point in management and External relationships of Noboa are in the international community’s rejection of the entry of the Ecuadorian security forcesto the headquarters of the Embassy of Mexico in Quitoto arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas and which meant the breaking of relations with Mexico and international condemnation of this fact.
We cannot forget the comments made by Noboa to the American magazine The New Yorkerwhen he harshly criticized the presidents of Latin America, a fact that was repudiated even by members of the National Assembly from Ecuador.
CREO and Construye strengthen ties in Europe and the United States
Another scenario is recorded in the international activity of the political movements Build y BELIEVEin which its top leaders have intensified their agenda of contacts to strengthen and prepare for the 2025 presidential elections.
Former president and leader of CREO, Guillermo Lassohas maintained an important activity, which has led him to visit USA y Madrid on several occasions. Lasso’s agenda has included the presentation of his book ‘900 days, democracy and results‘, which has allowed him to lead several forums at universities and debate spaces.
His last participation was recorded this week, when he headed a forum on democracy in Madrid, where he shared the stage with the former presidents, Ivan Duke of Colombia y Felipe Calderon of Mexicoin which they warned of the dangers that democracy runs in Latin America in view of the progress of the script of the Sao Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group.
For its part, the Construye movement led by Maria Paula Romo He has also developed an agenda of contacts, especially in the United States, and this week he shared the stage with Guillermo Lasso’s former Minister of Government, Henry Cucalonwhen they participated in a meeting organized by the Inter-American Institute for Democracy (IID) developed in Miami.
From this meeting arose the version about a possible alliance between the Construye, Suma and Avanza Movements, which would have Cucalón and Romo as its presidential formula, although this has not been confirmed.
What is clear is that both Romo and Cucalón have expressed the need to establish a “broad alliance” between parties of the right to center, to compete for the 2025 presidential elections with a chance of victory. (ILS)
International presence is key in today’s politics
The analysts Gabriela Panchana y Santiago Carranco They told LA HORA that at present politics must not lose sight of the support and international accompaniment.
The academic of the International University of Ecuador (UIDE), Santiago Carranco, indicated that although CREO and Construye are relatively new movements, “they have worked their ground. We often think that doing politics is simply going out to campaign, but no, in politics you have to build on the foundationsoften with allied parties on an international level”.
For her part, Gabriela Panchana, highlighted that, in contrast to the agendas of Lasso, Romo and Cucalón, which maintain a theme on democracy“President Noboa is not transparentizing what he talks about with the authorities he has met with.”
He warned that the president’s agenda so far “is basically making a demagogic campaign with Ecuadorians abroad.”
By: LA HORA Newspaper