Popular Unity (Ecuador)
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Popular Unity Unidad Popular | |
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| Director | Geovanni Atarihuana |
| Deputy Director | Mery Zamora |
| Founded | September 27, 2014 |
| Preceded by | MPD |
| Headquarters | Manuel Larrea and Jose Riofrio, Quito |
| Membership | 199,945 (2016)[1] |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism-Leninism Revolutionary socialism Anti-imperialism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | PCMLE |
| Colours | Red |
| Seats in the National Assembly | 1 / 151 |
| Provincial Prefects | 1 / 23 |
| Mayors | 13 / 221 |
| Website | |
| unidadpopulardos | |
The Popular Unity Movement (UP) (in Spanish: Movimiento Unidad Popular) is an Ecuadorian political movement of the revolutionary left close to Marxism-Leninism to be conformed with the electoral wing of the Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador.[2] The party is a member of the National Agreement for Change.
It arose after the CNE removed the Democratic People's Movement from its legal status after declaring the existence of poor electoral results on the part of this party.[3] The members of the previous party formed Unidad Popular to replace the old MPD, in which they would continue their political work.[4][5]
The party has a special stronghold in the province of Esmeraldas, where they held the provincial government from 2005 to 2019.
Its ideological principles are under a revolutionary and socialist character, considering the continuation of the struggle of the Democratic People's Movement and Jaime Hurtado. They oppose individualism and the relationship between countries based on imperialism, a system opposed by internationalism among the peoples they support.[4]
They support the development of participatory democracy and the right to self-determination of peoples, supporting, like Pachakutik, the constitution of Ecuador as a plurinational and multicultural state. They also declare themselves environmentalists.
Within the movement are integrated different thoughts of the revolutionary left, taking the importance of the Marxism-Leninism of PCMLE, which is why it is defined as the electoral front of this organization.[2]
