Dalo Bucaram

Life and work

The story behind the role.

Ecuadorian footballer and politician.

Abdalá Jaime Bucaram Pulley Jr. (born 25 March 1982) is an Ecuadorian political figure and former footballer. He is the son of former President Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz. After his retirement from professional football at age 24, he began his political career by being elected to office as an assemblyman with 428,000 votes in 2009 and in 2014 was re-elected with 500,000 votes. On 1 December 2014, he announced his resignation from his position as National Assemblyman due to his strong convictions that the office he served did not serve the best interests of his constituents. In 2017 he ran for the presidency of the republic with the support of his political party Fuerza Ecuador (FE), founded by him, he lost the election obtaining only 4.82% of the votes. He was invited to the XIII Latin American Summit of Political Marketing and Governance, event that brings together the leading strategists and political consultants of the world.

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