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<text id=93CT0403>
<title>
Ecuador--Government
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Ecuador
Government</hdr><body>
<list>
<l>Names:</l>
<l> conventional long form: Republic of Ecuador</l>
<l> conventional short form: Ecuador</l>
<l> local long form: Republica del Ecuador</l>
<l> local short form: Ecuador</l>
</list>
<p>Digraph: EC
</p>
<p>Type: republic
</p>
<p>Capital: Quito
</p>
<p>Administrative divisions: 21 provinces (provincias, singular -
provincia); Azuay, Bolivar, Canar, Carchi, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi,
El Oro, Esmeraldas, Galapagos, Guayas, Imbabura, Loja, Los Rios,
Manabi, Morona-Santiago, Napo, Pastaza, Pichincha, Sucumbios,
Tungurahua, Zamora-Chinchipe
</p>
<p>Independence: 24 May 1822 (from Spain)
</p>
<p>Constitution: 10 August 1979
</p>
<p>Legal system: based on civil law system; has not accepted
compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
</p>
<p>National holiday: Independence Day, 10 August (1809)
(independence of Quito)
</p>
<p>Political parties and leaders:
</p>
<p> Center-Right parties: Social Christian Party (PSC), Jaime
NEBOT Saadi, president; Republican Unity Party (PUR), President
Sixto DURAN-BALLEN, leader; Conservative Party (CE), Vice
President Alberto DAHIK, president
</p>
<p> Center-Left parties: Democratic Left (ID), Andres VALLEJO
Arcos, Rodrigo BORJA Cevallos, leaders; Popular Democracy (DP),
Jamil MANUAD Witt, president; Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party
(PLRE), Carlos Luis PLAZA Aray, director; Radical Alfarista
Front (FRA), Jaime ASPIAZU Seminario, director
</p>
<p> Populist parties: Roldista Party (PRE), Abdala BUCARAM
Ortiz, director; Concentration of Popular Forces (CFP), Rafael
SANTELICES, director; Popular Revolutionary Action (APRE), Frank
VARGAS Passos, leader; Assad Bucaram Party (PAB), Avicena
BUCARAM, leader; People, Change, and Democracy (PCD), Raul
AULESTIA, director
</p>
<p> Far-Left parties: Popular Democratic Movement (MPD), Jorge
Fausto MORENO, director; Ecuadorian Socialist Party (PSE), Leon
ROLDOS, leader; Broad Leftist Front (FADI), Jose Xavier
GARAYCOA, president; Ecuadorian National Liberation (LN),
Alfredo CASTILLO, director
</p>
<p> Communists: Communist Party of Ecuador (PCE, pro-North
Korea), Rene Leon Mague MOSWUERRA, secretary general (5,00
members); Communist Party of Ecuador/Marxist-Leninist (PCMLE,
Maoist), leader NA (3,000 members)
</p>
<p>Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal, compulsory for literate
persons ages 18-65, optional for other eligible voters
</p>
<p>Elections:
</p>
<p> President: runoff election held 5 July 1992 (next to be held
NA 1996); results - Sixto DURAN-BALLEN elected as president and
Alberto DAHIK elected as vice president
</p>
<p> National Congress: last held 17 May 1992 (next to be held NA
May 1994); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (77
total) PSC 20, PRE 15, PUR 12, ID 7, PC 6, DP 5, PSE 3, MPD 3,
PLRE 2, CFP 2, FRA 1, APRE 1
</p>
<p>Executive branch: president, vice president, Cabinet
</p>
<p>Legislative branch: unicameral National Congress (Congreso
Nacional)
</p>
<p>Judicial branch: Supreme Court (Corte Suprema)
</p>
<p>Leaders:
</p>
<p> Chief of State and Head of Government: President Sixto
DURAN-BALLEN (since 10 August 1992); Vice President Alberto
DAHIK (since 10 August 1992)
</p>
<p>Member of: AG, ECLAC, FAO, G-11, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO,
ICC, ICFTU, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL,
IOC, IOM, ITU, LAES, LAIA, LORCS, NAM, OAS, ONUSAL, OPANAL, PCA,
RG, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCL, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO,
WTO
</p>
<list>
<l>Diplomatic representation in US:</l>
<l> chief of mission: Ambassador Edgar TERAN</l>
<l> chancery: 2535 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009</l>
<l> telephone: (202) 234-7200</l>
<l> consulates general: Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami,
New Orleans, New York, and San Francisco</l>
<l> consulate: San Diego</l>
</list>
<list>
<l>US diplomatic representation:</l>
<l> chief of mission: (vacant); Charge d'Affaires James F.
MACK</l>
<l> embassy: Avenida 12 de Octubre y Avenida Patria, Quito</l>
<l> mailing address: P. O. Box 538, Quito, or APO AA
34039-3420</l>
<l> telephone: [593] (2) 562-890</l>
<l> FAX: [593] (2) 502-052</l>
<l> consulate general: Guayaquil</l>
</list>
<p>Flag: three horizontal bands of yellow (top, double width),
blue, and red with the coat of arms superimposed at the center
of the flag; similar to the flag of Colombia that is shorter and
does not bear a coat of arms
</p></body></article></text>