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Ecuadorian political movement based, oriented and defined its ideology in the political left (Bolivarianism and socialism of the XXI century), and was founded in 2006 by ex-President Rafael Correa.

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The Constitution was basically created under the regime of the Citizen Revolution and in general had the objective of re-founding the State and laying the foundations for a new way of doing politics for the benefit of citizens.

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Ginsburg and Simpser suggests that countries’ citizens can vary significantly in their perception of the fundamental importance of a new constitutional process. If expectations are lower as to the extent to which a given constitutional process is likely to bring improvements, this could also imply lower stakes at the constitutional drafting table that some groups might seek to achieve its policy aims.

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The study of constitutions in authoritarian regimes, and their institutional functions that can be unconnected to traditional notions of constitutionalism.

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The indigenous communities also sought the recognition of indigenous languages as official languages of the government alongside Spanish. Ultimately, neither aim was realized, although each objective received modest treatment in the Constitution5. These outcomes emphasize how it can be comparatively easier to make “minor cultural concessions” than to create the wholesale change demanded by many indigenous rights movements

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In the constituent assembly valued both the indigenous and environmental ideals of “Pachamama” and “sumak kawsay”, as well as the leftist neo-Bolivarian ideals of rights to health care, education, and social security.
One of their chief aims was the declaration of Ecuador as a plurinational state, first and foremost.

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The conflicts indigenous groups had with the constitutional provisions on language, the tension between the provisions on natural resources and recognition of Pachamama and Sumak Kawsay, the indigenous movements decided to take what they could get rather than losing everything with a more principled stance, said Becker. The political context from which these groups emerged was one in which they had not previously been afforded a voice on the national level.

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Correa’s platform with Alianza País was a clear reaction to the preceding periods of instability, inequality and corruption, utilizing language to characterize the prior period as to whether a new constitution was needed and received 82% of the vote.

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It is necessary to emphasize that this political movement took advantage of the fact that:

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It is necessary to emphasize that this political movement took advantage of the fact that:

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1. The 80% of the national population was excluded from the political process, thus the Ecuadorian population did not democratically elect their rulers. In fact (Bowen, 2010) mentions that none of the parties prior to Correa's presented a presidential candidate in the 2009 post-constitutional elections, a fact that clearly disappointed Ecuadorian citizens.
2. The use of the neo-Bolibarian model of governance in his campaigns, so that this new political party had a leftist ideology in which policies were developed that favored society as a whole and which was financed through taxes paid by citizens.

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Alianza País helped create a political change that gave way to the unification of several movements that were instrumental in the nationwide demonstrations against corruption, which differentiated this new political movement from the previous regimes.

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Ecuador between 1996 and 2006 had 7 corrupt governments that collapsed in different ways as well as the economic stability of the country, which caused wealth to be concentrated in few hands and the population to experience high levels of unemployment and underemployment due to inequality.

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 The Rise of Alianza País and the 2008 Constitution

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 The Rise of Alianza País and the 2008 Constitution