2024-08-01 14:39:34
The former president of the Judicial Council met with members of the Rumbo Democrático group and outlined concepts on government issues.
The possibility that Gustavo Jalkh could be the presidential candidate for Correa is not new. Former President Rafael Correa already mentioned him in a list of four possible presidential candidates for the Citizen Revolution movement.
In a round of interviews on May 24, 2024, Correa mentioned Jalk as one of the pre-candidates of his political organization. Other candidates listed by Correa were Luisa González (presidential candidate in 2023), Paola Pabón (prefect of Pichincha) and Augusto Verduga (councillor of Citizen Participation). However, Jalkh’s name is gaining strength and, on July 4, 2024, for the first time, he was included in a survey of voting intentions. In addition, Jalkh begins to give interviews and meet with various groups to spread his ideas.
On July 5, he participated in a forum of Rumbo Democrático, a progressive collective, in Quito. For a period of three hours, Jalkh spoke with intellectuals and professionals from that group, at a table made up of Carol Murillo, Paco Jijón and Maximiliano Donoso. He did not present himself as a candidate or as a pre-candidate. But he did not shy away from the fact that his name is being considered. “I know that my name is circulating.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen my name in a poll (…) But my name is there,” said Jalkh. “The names (of the candidates) will have to be decided at the right time. And those names will come out when this whole plan is defined,” he added, referring to an electoral and government project. “We must embrace a plan, but not just to win, but to fulfill it,” said Jalk, remembered for having been President of the Council of the Judiciary (2013-2018).
He was also private secretary to then-President Rafael Correa and, before that, his Minister of Government. Jalkh spoke, among other areas, about international relations (he said that he would seek advice from Ambassador Horacio Sevilla, in a hypothetical reconstruction of Ecuador’s image). He also touched on security and human rights (“when we accept as a society that our rights are reduced to supposedly give us security, at the end of the day we are left without rights and without security”). He also called for the unity of progressivism to defeat the right in 2025. “We must generate the greatest possible unity with the most important national objectives.”
By: PRIMICIAS