Creating Opportunities

Political party in Ecuador

Creating Opportunities

Creando Oportunidades

Abbreviation| CREO
Leader| Guillermo Lasso
President| Juan Fernando Flores
Founder| Guillermo Lasso
Founded| 20 August 2012; 12 years ago (2012-08-20)
Preceded by| Popular Democracy
Headquarters| Av. Quito 2502 y Gomez Rendon, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Think tank| Free Ecuador Foundation
Youth wing| Jóvenes CREO
Membership|  184,299 (2016) [1]
Ideology|

* Conservatism[2]
* Liberal conservatism[3][4][5][6][7][8]
* Classical liberalism[9][10][11][12]

Political position| Centre-right[13][14][15] to right-wing[16][17]
Regional affiliation| Union of Latin American Parties[18]
International affiliation| International Democracy Union[19]
Seats in the National Assembly|

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Prefects|

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Mayors|

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Website
creo.com.ec

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* Creating Opportunities
* 2022 Ecuador landslides
* 2022 Ecuadorian protests
* Ecuadorian security crisis
* Prison riots (February 2021, September 2021, November 2021, 2022)
* 2023 Ecuadorian political crisis (muerte cruzada)
* COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador

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* 2013
* 2017
* 2021

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Creating Opportunities (Spanish: Creando Oportunidades, CREO, the acronym means lit. 'I believe', and also means lit. 'I create') is a centre-right to right-wing political party in Ecuador.[20] In the 2021 general election, its leader, Guillermo Lasso was elected for president.[21]

## Ideology

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Generally considered a centre-right to right-wing party, CREO's candidate in the 2021 presidential elections ran on a more centrist platform: his economic development model was mainly market-oriented and favoring entrepreneurship, but also promised state support to micro-enterprises and upgrading of education. With conservatism[22][23][24][25][26][27] and economic liberalism.[28][10][29][30]

Lasso promoted an independent judiciary and free speech (the opposition and civil rights organizations consider judicial autonomy and press freedom to be threatened under the administration of President Rafael Correa).[31]

## History

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In the 2013 presidential election, Lasso was placed second with 22.7% of the votes, having been endorsed also by the Social Christian Party and the Madera de Guerrero movement of Guayaquil's mayor Jaime Nebot. In the simultaneous election for the National Assembly, the party won 11.4% of the votes and 11 out of 137 seats. Hence, it is the major opposition force in parliament.

In the 2014 local elections, CREO obtained 22 mayorships, including those of provincial capitals such as Azogues, Riobamba and Tena, besides the Loja prefecture. In that same year, CREO lead the creation of "Ecuador Compromise" (Compromiso Ecuador) formed by various opposition groups and guilds, including the Migrants Movement led by Luis Felipe Tilleria, and supported by several political figures from across the Ecuadorian political spectrum. The context of its creation was a government-sponsored project for a series of constitutional amendments by the National Assembly, which led to the opposition collective to unsuccessfully ask for a referendum on the matter, with special focus on the amendment that would pave the way for elected incumbents to seek indefinite reelection. In September 2016, CREO was admitted as member of the Union of Latin American Parties, the regional subsidiary of the International Democracy Union.[32]

For the 2017 general elections, Lasso and his movement agreed with the SUMA Party to form the "Alliance for Change" [es] (Alianza por el Cambio) to run on an anti-Correa platform, along with several other smaller groups.[33]

Lasso ran as a candidate again in the 2021 general election.[34] In the first round, Lasso was slightly behind indigenous rights activist Yaku Pérez Guartambel, but eventually garnered enough votes to secure a narrow second-place finish.[35] Lasso would face socialist and Rafael Correa ally Andrés Arauz.[35] He defeated Arauz in the April run-off election, with many news outlets noting the conservative shift among the Ecuadorian electorate.[36] Lasso's victory was also seen as a win for free-market advocates in the country.[10][37] President-elect Lasso finished second in the 2013 and 2017 presidential elections.[38] On May 24, 2021, Guillermo Lasso was sworn in as the new President of Ecuador, becoming the country's first right-wing leader in 14 years.[39]

## Election results

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### Presidential elections

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Year  | Candidates  | First Round  | Place  | Second Round  | Place

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President  | Vice President  | Votes  | % | Votes  | %
2013 | Guillermo Lasso | Juan Carlos Solines | 1,951,102  | 23%  | 2nd  |  |  |
2017 | Guillermo Lasso | Andrés Páez [es] | 2,652,403  | 28%  | 2nd  | 4,833,389  | 49%  | 2nd
2021 | Guillermo Lasso | Alfredo Borrero Vega | 1,830,172  | 20%  | 2nd  | 4,656,426  | 52%  | 1st

## References

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1. ^ Telégrafo, El (September 6, 2016). "3,5 millones de firmas avalan a 16 grupos políticos". El Telégrafo.
2. ^ Roberts, Kenneth M. (2014). Changing Course in Latin America. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-85687-4.
3. ^ Profiles: Ecuador's leading presidential candidates, Xinhua, February 17, 2013
4. ^ Glickhouse, Rachel (February 15, 2013), In Ecuador, an Expected Third-Term Win for Correa, Americas Society – Council of the Americas
5. ^ Guillermo Lasso, un conservador que promete cambios, El País, April 11, 2021
6. ^ "El conservador Guillermo Lasso ganó y será el próximo presidente de Ecuador". April 11, 2021.
7. ^ "Conservador Guillermo Lasso asume las riendas de Ecuador". La Nación. May 24, 2021.
8. ^ "Remontada histórica del conservador Guillermo Lasso y varapalo al correísmo en las elecciones de Ecuador". April 12, 2021.
9. ^ "Guillermo Lasso: Mi vida me hizo liberal". El Universo (in Spanish). May 9, 2012. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
10. ^ a b c "Ecuador's Guillermo Lasso Wins Presidential Election". The Wall Street Journal. April 11, 2021.
11. ^ "El liberal que puede tumbar el socialismo en Ecuador... Si no hay 'pucherazo'". February 22, 2017.
12. ^ "Ecuador inicia un giro liberal". April 12, 2021.
13. ^ Beittel, June S. (July 2013), "Ecuador: Political and Economic Conditions and U.S. Relations" (PDF), CRS Report for Congress, Congressional Research Service, p. 3
14. ^ Terryn, Tristan (February 26, 2013), In Ecuador, a decisive victory for President Rafael Correa consolidates the 'Citizen's Revolution' (PDF), Policy Department, Directorate-General for External Policies, p. 1
15. ^ "Lasso, el conservador que giró al centro político para presidir Ecuador".
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* Navia, Patricio; Reguero, Sebastián Umpiérrez de (June 8, 2021). "CREO: El ascenso y los desafíos de consolidación del partido político de derecha emergente en Ecuador (2013–2021)". Revista Uruguaya de Ciencia Política (in Spanish). 30 (1): 49–77\. ISSN 1688-499X.
* Moncagatta, Paolo; Espinosa, Carlos (July 1, 2019). "No Country for the Right Wing? Actores, trayectoria, oferta y demanda de la derecha en Ecuador". Colombia Internacional (in Spanish) (99): 121–150\. doi:10.7440/colombiaint99.2019.05. hdl:10230/55030. ISSN 0121-5612. "Tercero, la casi ausencia de oposición organizada en torno a Correa generó el espacio para el surgimiento de una nueva fuerza de derecha, el Movimiento CREO, que cobró fuerza a partir del 2013." [Third, the absence of organized opposition around Correa left space for the emergence of a new right-wing force, the CREO Movement, which gathered strength from 2013 onwards.]
* PhD, Gilad James. Introduction to Ecuador. Gilad James Mystery School. ISBN 978-0-227-13753-6. "Guillermo Lasso, candidate of the right-wing CREO party, won the elections, defeating Andrés Arauz, candidate of the left-wing Alliance for Hope."
* Ellner, Steve (October 10, 2019). Latin America's Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-2564-9. "On April 2, 2017, former vice president and AP candidate Lenín Moreno was elected president with 51.2 percent of the vote, defeating Guillermo Lasso of the right-wing Movimiento CREO (CREO Movement) party, who garnered 48.8 percent."

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* Corrêa, Sonia (July 7, 2021). Políticas Antigênero na América Latina (in Brazilian Portuguese). Nana Soares, FW2 Agência Digital, Rajnia de Vito, Angela de Freitas, Fernando Serrano, Gabriela Arguedas Ramirez, Maximiliano Campana, Isabela Kalil, Jaime Barrientos, Franklin Gil Hernández, Maria Amelia Viteri, Gloria Careaga, Luz Elena Aranda, Clyde Soto, Lilian Soto, Lilián Abracinskas, Santiago Puyol, Nicolás Iglesias, Stefanie Kreher, Mirta Moragas, Ana María Acosta, Elizabeth Otálvaro, Luisana Alvarado, Magaly Pazello, Mariana Carbajal. Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinas de Aids - ABIA. ISBN 978-65-87854-08-3. "Para além das mobilizações sociais, as ideias antigênero e antiaborto penetraram profundamente nos partidos políticos e nas políticas estatais. Ainda 2016, o candidato presidencial de extrema-direita Guillermo Lasso, do partido Creando Oportunidades (CREO) – que em 2021 foi eleito presidente do Equador - sustentou um discurso forte de defesa da "família"."
* Hernández Vicencio, Tania; Bussoletti, Andrea (2024). Derechas e izquierdas en el siglo XXI : debates generales y estudios de caso. Instituto Electoral del Estado de Guanajuato. ISBN 978-607-69631-4-2. "See table 2 "Principales partidos de derecha radical en América Latina"."
* admin (May 2, 2023). "O declínio da direita no Equador: o processo de impeachment de Guillermo Lasso". Observatório de Política Externa e da Inserção Internacional do Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved March 1, 2025. "No centro está uma disputa entre partidários do ex-presidente Rafael Correa, de centro-esquerda, e a coalizão presidencial, solidamente ancorada na direita e da extrema-direita." [At the center is a dispute between supporters of former President Rafael Correa, from the center-left, and the presidential coalition, solidly anchored on the right and far right.]
* Univision, Equipo (April 2, 2017). "¿Quiénes son los candidatos para la presidencia de Ecuador?". Univision Noticias.

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19. ^ "Members | International Democracy Union". February 2018.
20. ^ "El CNE habilitó al movimiento CREO". El Universo. January 23, 2012.
21. ^ Dube, Ryan (April 11, 2021). "Ecuador's Guillermo Lasso Wins Presidential Election". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
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25. ^ "El conservador Guillermo Lasso ganó y será el próximo presidente de Ecuador". April 11, 2021.
26. ^ "Conservador Guillermo Lasso asume las riendas de Ecuador". La Nación. May 24, 2021.
27. ^ "Remontada histórica del conservador Guillermo Lasso y varapalo al correísmo en las elecciones de Ecuador". April 12, 2021.
28. ^ "Guillermo Lasso: Mi vida me hizo liberal". El Universo (in Spanish). May 9, 2012. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
29. ^ "El liberal que puede tumbar el socialismo en Ecuador... Si no hay 'pucherazo'". February 22, 2017.
30. ^ "Ecuador inicia un giro liberal". April 12, 2021.
31. ^ Palacio, Gustavo (February 12, 2013). "Ecuador: An Election Primer". Center for Strategic and International Studies. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013.
32. ^ "CREO se incorpora a la Unión de Partidos Latinoamericanos | La República EC". September 11, 2016.
33. ^ "Alianza por el Cambio, nueva plataforma electoral de Guillermo Lasso". El Universo. October 29, 2016.
34. ^ McDonnell, Patrick J.; Jaramillo Viteri, Pablo (April 11, 2021). "Shadow of COVID-19 and economic downturn hovers over elections in Ecuador and Peru". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 11, 2021.
35. ^ a b "Leftist Arauz, conservative Lasso advance to Ecuador presidential run-off". Buenos Aires Times. February 22, 2021.
36. ^ "Ecuador goes with conservative banker in presidential vote". Associated Press. April 11, 2021.
37. ^ "Ecuador's Lasso pledges deficit cuts, new oil deals after election win". Reuters. April 12, 2021.
38. ^ "Guillermo Lasso: Conservative ex-banker elected Ecuador president". BBC News. April 12, 2021.
39. ^ "Lasso inaugurated as first right-wing Ecuador president in 14 years". France 24. May 24, 2021.

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