Weekly Report - 7 August 2014 (WR-14-31)

Four opposition political parties have been stripped of their registration in Ecuador. Two of them are traditional parties: the Partido Renovador Institucional Acción Nacional (Prian), of banana magnate Alvaro Noboa; and the Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano (PRE), of former president Abdalá Bucaram, who was dismissed by congress for alleged mental incapacity in 1997 after less than a year in office and is living in exile in Panama. The other two parties are estranged allies of the government led by President Rafael Correa: the Marxist-Leninist Movimiento Popular Democrático (MPD), affiliated to the teachers’ unions; and Movimiento Ruptura de los 25, a founding member of the ruling Alianza País (AP) coalition.

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