The national significance of the Pachakutik movement as a stable political force corresponds only to its ethnic composition. No more than 9% of Ecuadorians. The initial results of 1996 and 2002 obtained with meddling, Freddy Ehlers and Lucio Gutiérrez, indicated a promising electoral future, which was significantly frustrated by the results of 2006, 2013 and 2017: three elections in which they reached only 2.19 %, 3.26 % and 6.71% of votes.

However, in 2021 he stormed in with 19.39% of the vote, sponsoring the domestic candidacy of Yaku Pérez in the presidential election. The vote partly responded to the percentage of their ethnic integration of the population and apparently to the considerable mixing of conservation groups influenced by Pérez’s environmental program, which, although it did not reach the presidential throne, allowed them a successful result in the legislative bodies with 27 members of the assembly. As with those received by other political forces, anti-Koreist votes had a lot to do with their results. Only by concluding possible political alliances can significant participation in the elections be appreciated.

Failure of Pachakutik

The real political power of the Pachakutik is not greater than that provided by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) with its members and its mobilizations, the last two in October and June led by Leonidas Iza and his affinities, who seek to overthrow by force the constituted regime, organized and programmed for sowing terror, using a minimal percentage of its ethnic composition.

the end of innocence

Pachakutik’s accidental participation in the parliament led him to become the second political force in the parliament. A temporary position that does not correspond to a similar position in the national electorate, even worse if within it there have been significant cracks created by Iza, which intends to take power through anarchy and terror through the same bright Mariateguistas.

Pachakutik’s split between the current moderates and Iza’s anarchists, together with the fortuitous formation of a new party by Yaku Pérez, dissipates his immediate electoral strength, which, together with the current political circumstances, reveals a serious risk to Pachakutik, created by their legislators, if at the time of voting they replace the president Guillermo Lasso. The almost certain impending death of the Crusade would dissolve the National Assembly, and the legislative political forces would be forced to intervene, electorally divided, within six months, relegating them to the last positions.

In Pachakutik, they maintain expectations by calling for repeat internal elections

United in correísmo, they will naively satisfy their longing for permanent division, which their eventual accomplices in the parliamentary conspiracy seem to have forgotten.

On the other hand, over time, united enough with Pérez, consolidated in 2025, they may be able to repeat the results of 2021. Divided, they will only get a return to the previous national political quota of 2.4% and 6% of the vote, so their legislators should be subjected to native justice. (OR)