Lenín Moreno

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Lenín Voltaire Moreno Garcés (Spanish: [leˈnim bolˈtajɾe moˈɾeno ɣaɾˈses]; born 19 March 1953) is an Ecuadorian politician who was the 46th president of Ecuador from 2017 to 2021. He was also vice president from 2007 to 2013, under President Rafael Correa. He was nominated as the candidate for Correa's PAIS Alliance, a social democratic political party, in the 2017 presidential election and won a narrow victory in Ecuador's second round of voting on 2 April 2017. However, after his election Moreno drastically shifted his political stance, distancing himself from Correa's leftist legacy in both domestic and foreign policy. After completing a presidential term marked by corruption, violence, and the implementation of a series of neoliberal reforms in his country, Lenín Moreno became extremely unpopular among the Ecuadorian people. By the end of Moreno's presidency he had left office with an approval rating of 9%, the lowest in modern Ecuadorian history, due to his poor administration, lack...

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