The Ecuadorian Roldosist Party (Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano) is a centre-left

Centre-left

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 populist

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 political party in Ecuador

Ecuador

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At the legislative elections

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, 20 October 2002, the party won 15 out of 100 seats. Its candidate Jacobo Bucaram Ortiz won 11.9 % of the vote in the presidential elections of the same day, coming in 6th place. At the legislative elections of October 15, 2006, the party was badly defeated, winning 6 of 100 seats in the Congress. Its presidential candidate in 1998, Álvaro Noboa

Álvaro Noboa

Álvaro Fernando Noboa Pontón is an Ecuadoran businessman and politician.Noboa has been actively involved in politics, unsuccessfully running for the office of President of Ecuador in 1998, 2002, 2006, and 2009...

, who was narrowly defeated in that election, ran as a presidential candidate in 2002 and 2006 for another party and participated unsuccessfully in a runoff both times. The Roldosist Party's own presidential candidate for the 2006 election, Fernando Rosero received less than 2% of the vote. The party was named after former President Jaime Roldós

Jaime Roldós Aguilera

Jaime Roldós Aguilera was President of Ecuador from 10 August 1979 to 24 May 1981. In his short tenure, he became known for his firm stance on human rights. His death in a plane crash gave rise to speculation of involvement by the United States government in the accident.-Early life and...

, it was founded by Abdalá Bucaram

Abdalá Bucaram

Abdalá Jaime Bucaram Ortíz is an Ecuadorian politician and lawyer who briefly occupied the Presidency of Ecuador...

, his brother-in-law. Bucaram was elected President in 1996 but was impeached the following year. Though Jaime Roldós's brother León Roldós

León Roldós Aguilera

León Roldós Aguilera is an Ecuadorian politician. He was born in Guayaquil in 1942. His mother died during his birth. He studied law at the state University of Guayaquil . He became Secretary of the Municipality of Guayaquil under Mayor Asaad Bucaram , of the populist party Concentración de...

is still very involved in Ecuadorian politics, he is not a member of the Roldosist Party.