Weekly Report - 22 January 2026 (WR-26-03)

Can Rivadeneira pull Ecuador’s opposition together?

POSTSCRIPT by Abbi Dicker 22 January 2026 1940 views

Ecuador’s main opposition party, Revolución Ciudadana (RC), has appointed Gabriela Rivadeneira as its new leader at its 17-18 January annual convention in the northern port city of Manta. Elected unopposed, her job is to unite a fractious party which in three successive elections in 2021, 2023, and 2025 reached the second round of the presidential ballot but was defeated on each occasion.

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