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Oct 9, 2024 · Correa served briefly as Ecuador’s finance minister in 2005. The following year he ran for president on a platform that called for constitutional reform. A skilled and charismatic political campaigner, he easily defeated Álvaro Noboa, a wealthy banana-plantation owner, in a runoff vote.
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Rafael Correa was officially declared President on 4 December 2006 by the electoral court. He was sworn in on 15 January 2007 as the 56th president of Ecuador, the seventh to occupy the post since the legislature removed President Abdalá Bucaram 10 years earlier in the midst of a debt crisis that had devastated the country.
Feb 27, 2013 · AFP. Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa won an unprecedented third term in elections in February 2013. He had already been in office for six years - no mean feat in a country that went...
In May 2017 Rafael Correa became the first President in more than two decades to serve out his complete terms in office since Sixto Durán Ballén, who served from 1992 to 1996. Before Correa, a period of deep political instability from 1996 to 2006 also saw a grave economic crisis in 1998-2000.
Rafael Correa's landslide election victory on 27 April 2009 makes him the first candidate since Ecuador's return to democracy in 1979 to win a presidential vote outright in the first round.
He won the re-elections in April 2009 and became the first president to be re-elected for a second term in 30 years, defeating his closest rival, Lucio Gutierrez. He became the President in August 2009 with promises of continuing his social revolution.
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Before becoming president, he had been Finance Minister for four months in 2005, and an academic before that. Correa was born to a lower-middle-class family in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, in April 1963.
