[WSMDiscuss] Yaku Pérez' ongoing critiques of Arauz & Lasso; Webinar en espanol, 17h (Quito) "Eleições no Equador, o movimento indígena e as políticas de esquerda", acontecerá na próxima terça-feira (Pablo Ospina, Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar)

[Patrick Bond]

(/Perhaps the people are already tired of the violence, of extractivism, 
of that populist left, which is not a real, authentic left that is with 
the workers, with the teachers, with the indigenous class, with the open 
class, with whom we were reviled, persecuted, criminalized. Only before 
the international face does progressivism appear. It is a left that is 
actually camouflaged.//**//*..
*/

/**//When Lasso said that he was going to open the polls to make the 
votes transparent (after the first round to clarify doubts whether Pérez 
or Lasso had obtained second place) and then he broke that promise, we 
were mistrusted. I think this party today will morph in six months, 
maybe less, into disappointment, frustration./..

/  From my space, from the legal profession, from the academy, from the 
farm, that is, from taking care of food, taking care of water, I will 
continue to contribute to the country and create awareness that we have 
to take care of the planet. If we don’t want to die toast from global 
warming./)


  Yaku Pérez to Radio France International:


  “Perhaps the people are tired of that populist left”

by admin
April 13, 2021

After the second electoral round in Ecuador that gave the victory to 
conservative Guillermo Lasso, RFI exclusively interviewed the leftist 
indigenous leader Yaku Pérez, who obtained third place in the first 
round, with just 0.35% less of the vote than Lasso, the next president 
of the country.

The general elections in Ecuador served for the conservative Guillermo 
Lasso to rise with the Presidency of the country in his struggle with 
the correista Andrés Arauz, although the figure of a third man, Yaku 
Pérez, should not be forgotten.

The indigenous leader who was third by a slim margin in the first round 
and who unsuccessfully appealed to the contentious electoral tribunal to 
review the votes, has been the key man for Lasso to take the Presidency 
in what was his third candidacy .

Pérez, a 52-year-old lawyer, declared an opponent of Lasso and a 
consummate anticorreist, placed third in the first round of February 7 
with 19.39% of the votes, compared to 32.72% of the winner of the day, 
the economist left-wing Arauz, and 19.74% of the former right-wing 
banker Lasso.

*RFI What is your personal analysis of the presidential election in 
Ecuador?*

*Yaku Pérez:* (Considering that) in the historic there is a null vote, 
which was generally 10% and now it reaches 17%, and that we ran a 
campaign without spending a single penny, I think it is an election that 
is giving the country and the new President who has to listen to us. As 
we were no longer on the ballot, we no longer had greater enthusiasm. 
Many have said, including the ‘New York Times’, that the winning 
candidate of the first round does not appear on the ballots of the 
second round. That says a lot. We are outraged by fraud. But that is 
history and what we have to do is wish the new president-elect success. 
We will continue on our shore of peaceful resistance, in defense of 
water, ecology, community rights, and freedoms.

*RFI Where do you think the votes you obtained in the first round have 
gone?*

*AND P: *If we read the results, they would have gone to candidate 
Lasso. We win in 13 of the 24 provinces. (We win) throughout the 
Ecuadorian Amazon. And (in the second round) in the mountains and in the 
Amazon, Mr. Lasso wins. Perhaps the people are already tired of the 
violence, of extractivism, of that populist left, which is not a real, 
authentic left that is with the workers, with the teachers, with the 
indigenous class, with the open class, with whom we were reviled, 
persecuted, criminalized. Only before the international face does 
progressivism appear. It is a left that is actually camouflaged. It is a 
left that appears as a right that has been receiving the support of a 
billionaire such as Isidro Romero for the candidacy of correísmo.

*RFI What do you expect from Guillermo Lasso at the head of the country 
in the coming years? *

*AND P:*I wish you the best of luck. If he governs well we will be 
happy. But I doubt it. When Lasso said that he was going to open the 
polls to make the votes transparent (after the first round to clarify 
doubts whether Pérez or Lasso had obtained second place) and then he 
broke that promise, we were mistrusted. I think this party today (by 
your choice) will morph in six months, maybe less, into disappointment, 
frustration. Time will absolve us, it is the best judge. It takes time, 
but it is infallible.

*RFI What will be your role in the opposition? *

*AND P: *(I will do) what the voters say, what my people say, what Pacha 
Mamita says. I am not obsessed with a candidacy. If it is good, if not, 
nothing happens. From my space, from the legal profession, from the 
academy, from the farm, that is, from taking care of food, taking care 
of water, I will continue to contribute to the country and create 
awareness that we have to take care of the planet. If we don’t want to 
die toast from global warming.

*RFI Are you retiring from politics? *

*AND P:* I am neither retired, nor retired, nor active in electoral 
politics. This is not an obsession on my part. If the people ask me to 
be a candidate, then I will put all my contingents for the good of the 
country.

With AFP

***

<https://puc-rio.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5b20164a8ad0d28c52b9378f8&id=175c94e58f&e=afb53c1371>O 
Núcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinares Ibero-Americanos (Ei) convida para 
a série de encontros virtuais "*Diálogos com a América Latina: Dinâmicas 
e transformações na região*".

Nosso próximo webinar,*"Eleições no Equador, o movimento indígena e as 
políticas de esquerda"*, acontecerá na próxima *terça-feira, dia 13, às 
17h,*e contará com a participação de*Pablo Ospina*(Universidad Andina 
Simón Bolivar, Equador).

Embora as eleições presidenciais do Equador tenham sido decididas em 
torno da polarização entre dois grupos políticos tradicionais – o 
caudilhismo correísta e o projeto empresarial neoliberal –, é evidente 
que estes não representam as agendas políticas dos movimentos sociais 
equatorianos. Nesse contexto, o movimento indígena, contando com o apoio 
de grupos ambientalistas, jovens e feministas, se coloca desde já como 
ator fundamental no futuro cenário político do país. Qual será o lugar 
desta força política alternativa no novo governo nacional? Que 
transformações sua atuação representará para a democracia equatoriana? 
Quais suas potenciais lições e efeitos sobre as eleições no Brasil?

*Pablo Ospina*é historiador e antropólogo, docente da Área de Estudos 
Sociais e Globais da Universidade Andina Simón Bolívar, em Quito, 
Equador. É especializado no estudo de movimentos sociais, os conflitos 
ambientais, o desenvolvimento rural, os problemas agrários, a análise 
política e a construção do Estado na América Latina.

/*O evento será conduzido em português e espanhol./

Mais informações sobre o evento através do 
emailiberoamericano at puc-rio.br <mailto:iberoamericano at puc-rio.br>






-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.openspaceforum.net/pipermail/wsm-discuss/attachments/20210413/4ac007c7/attachment.htm>