Ecuador's President Ousted From His Party
After months of internal dissent and public feuding, Ecuador's president, Lenin Moreno, has been kicked out of his party, the Alianza Pais. He will remain in office, though, and the decision – technically justified by Moreno's absence from several meetings – is being hotly contested within the party.
Moreno served as vice president for six years under Rafael Correa, the popular and charismatic founder of the left-wing Alianza Pais party. In April 2017, he was narrowly elected as the successor to Correa's administration, which oversaw the most stable political period of Ecuador's democratic history.
During his presidential campaign against the conservative banker Guillermo Lasso, there were already signs that Moreno was distancing himself from Correa. But at the time, these subtle political shifts seemed necessary to win an extremely tight race on a continent where the once-powerful Left is now ailing.
Now, after executing a shocking breakaway from both the Alianza Pais platform and its supreme leader, Correa, the party is taking action against him. This political turnaround is complicating Ecuador's democratic transition and unraveling the powerful Alianza Pais.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2017-11-02/ecuadors-president-lenin-moreno-is-kicked-out-of-his-party
Correa still wants to pull the strings in Ecuadorean politics. I think he set up Lenin Moreno to take the fall for the effects of reduced oil revenues, and intends to make a comeback in the next election.
