The questions and the stage are being prepared for the next debate of the presidential candidates. And it’s great because at least we have to know what the successful candidate is planning and how he will execute his projects. He will rule for a little over a year, in a security crisis and with the El Niño phenomenon in the middle. They have challenges and challenges. How will he face them? How will you include us in your solution?

If it needs anything, it is the country united in a proposal that helps it stand up, assuring those who are most in need that the state will defend, care for and protect them.

Ecuador’s business committee will talk to the presidential candidates

So, a little in jest, but very seriously, how about asking them the same questions, whose answers others don’t hear, to see what opportunities they have to build bridges, unite the country, ask for help when they need it and support each other .. on who it could be effective, even if it is his political opponent.

I pick up some. Surely there are more creative people who could come up with very interesting questions.

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For example:

List three qualities of your competitors.

Say which of your opponent’s suggestions you would implement if you could.

You have little time to rule, and there are opponents with defined abilities, which specific ministry would you hypothetically entrust them with?

Say what are the reasons for voting yes, in the Yasuní consultation, what are the reasons for voting against and which option you are voting for.

Name a particular place you like in each province.

Which aspects of your government plan are you willing to delay and which are non-negotiable. Give reasons, knowing that saying none is not an answer.

Do you think that technology training for the elderly population is a priority or not? Because?

Say which of your opponent’s suggestions you would implement if you could.

The Empty Chair is a democratic innovation created by the 2008 Constitution that allows any citizen to participate in any session of the legislative body of subnational government bodies in Ecuador, with the right to vote and the right to vote in matters of interest to society. Given that in Guillermo Lasso’s government we have seen photos of the president’s wife at cabinet meetings, do you think it would be good to implement the possibility of an empty chair permanently at cabinet meetings, except for national security issues?

other factors

Given that the ability to learn and reinvent oneself in a world of dizzying change is an accelerating constant, do you have suggestions for equalizing the knowledge and skills of a population excluded from technological advancement? How will you reconcile respect for the knowledge and tasks of the ancestors with this gap?

Algorithms are taking control of our options, of what we see or should see, of our tastes, of what we are informed or not, they exercise an authority that we are not quite aware of, do you have any suggestions to address this reality?

Politicians teach, they are pedagogues unwillingly, what would be their legacy in the collective task?

The very exercise of thinking about unexpected questions pulls us out of the obvious, because when we ask them, we ask ourselves. We discovered them and we discovered ourselves. (OR)