Roldós Aguilera, Jaime

Roldós Aguilera, Jaime

▪ president of Ecuador
born Nov. 5, 1940, Guayaquil, Ecuador
died May 24, 1981, near Guachanama

      lawyer elected president of Ecuador in 1979.

      After graduating from the University of Guayaquil and its law school, Roldós joined the faculty of the Vicente Rocafuerte University in Guayaquil. In 1962 he married Marta Bucaram, a niece of Assad Bucaram, the leader of the Concentration of Popular Forces (Concentración de Fuerzas Populares; CFP), a left-of-centre populist party. In 1968 Roldós, endorsed by the CFP, was elected to the Ecuadorean legislature, which was, however, suspended by President José María Velasco Ibarra in 1970.

      In 1976, while Ecuador was ruled by a military junta that had taken control in 1972, Roldós was appointed to one of three committees charged with formulating changes in the constitution and election laws of the nation. A new constitution was adopted in 1978, but a clause inserted in it by the junta disqualified Bucaram from the presidency, which he had been favoured to win. Roldós became the candidate of the CFP, using the campaign slogan, “Roldós in office, Bucaram in power.” He received a surprising 31 percent of the votes but was forced into a runoff election. The junta delayed the runoff until April 1979, and Roldós took advantage of the interval to leave the shadow of Bucaram and build up his own identity. In the runoff, Roldós received nearly 69 percent of the votes.

      After taking office, Roldós pursued policies more conservative than had been expected; he received little cooperation from the new unicameral legislature, which was led by the alienated Bucaram. Roldós formed his own political party—People, Change, and Democracy—in 1980. He and his wife were killed in an airplane crash near the Peruvian border.

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