The participation of women in political and public positions is increasing more and more, although they are well below gender parity. Men continue to be the ones who occupy these dignities the most.
In Los Ríos, the reins of the municipalities of Puebloviejo, Baba, Urdaneta, Mocache and Buena Fe will be led by women.
In Puebloviejo, a canton that has just completed 177 years of cantonization, Elsy Ospina was elected as mayor after participating for the Citizen Revolution Movement (RC), list 5.
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As thanks to God for his triumph, Ospina held a cult in one of the streets of Puebloviejo. In that act she was together with her husband, the former mayor of Puebloviejo, Carlos Ortega, and dozens of supporters.
In Baba, Jael Melo Olvera, 33, managed to capture the mayoralty after his second attempt.
Melo participated for list 1 of the Unir Movement, and managed to leave behind his main adversary, Daniel Escobar Palacios, son of the current mayoress of Baba, Sonia Palacios, with a difference of more than 5,000 votes.
In good faith, Diana Anchundia, also from the Citizen Revolution Movement, became the first woman to assume the Mayor’s Office in said canton, which for 28 years has been governed by men.
The last three mayors were Patricio Mendoza Palma, assassinated in December 2021; Luis Zambrano Bello, who in this electoral process was again a candidate, and Eduardo Mendoza Palma, the latter left the municipal administration to run in the 2023 elections as prefect, however, he did not achieve his objective, because Jhonny Terán, from the list 6, he was re-elected.
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Yenny Domínguez, from RC-5, was appointed with 9,801 votes as mayor of Mocache.
In the last elections of 2019, he also ran, but he was unable to get the votes, unlike this campaign in which he competed with the political figure of the current mayor María Cristina Holguín, who came in fourth place with 2,594 votes.
The fifth mayor of Los Ríos is a journalist and former official of the Ministry of Economy and Social Inclusion (MIES), Amada Zambrano, candidate for list 6.
She managed to be re-elected in the Urdaneta canton with a difference of only 76 votes. She reached 7,521 votes against Cristhian Lara Guerrero, from list 1, who obtained 7,445 votes, according to the results issued by the Los Ríos CNE. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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