Abdalá Bucaram, Jr.

Early life

Abdala "Dalo" Bucaram was born in Guayaquil - Ecuador on March 25, 1982, son of Abdala Bucaram Ortiz and Maria Rosa Pulley Vergara. He is the third of four brothers: James, Linda and Michel.

He completed his high school education at the Moderna Sergio Perez Valdez College in Guayaquil.

As an athlete he was part of one of the two most relevant teams in the country C.S. Emelec where he began his football carrier. He also played with Barcelona S.C, Santa Rita and Otubrino Daring Nationally.

Internationally he played for teams such as Chacarita Junior (Argentina) and the Alliance of Montevideo in the Uruguayan second division.

Family

His father is Abdalá Bucaram President of Ecuador for the period of August 10, 1996 and February 6, 1997, which ended with a cue and his ousting by the Congress of Ecuador.

Marriage and sons

He married in 2005 the TV host and ex-Assembly woman Gabriela Pazmiño, with whom he has four children: Dalia, Maria Gabriela, Abdala and Charlotte.

Education

He studied law at the Metropolitan University of Ecuador. Later, he was transferred to the Cooperative University of Colombia in Quito where he graduated with a degree in law from the courts of the Republic in 2008.

After graduating as a lawyer, he specialized in Constitutional Law at the Universidad de Salamanca of Spain in 2013. He continued his studies and pursued a master's degree in Political Management from George Washington University.

He also full field seminars at the University of Alicante, Salamanca and George Washington University.

Sport career

As a football player his position was as a midfielder for several clubs in South America.

In 2001 he was selected for the national football team U-20 Ecuador, but only played the opening match of the South American championship. [1]

After that match against Venezuela ended in a 0-0 score manager José María Burbano resigned and Fabian Andrade took over as coach. Bucaram said a political conspiracy prevented him from being selected for any additional games during the tournament [2].

Accusations where also raised against Bucaram under the suspicion that he was only selected because of a friendship between his father and coach Andrade. Bucaram denied this accusation.

In 2003, while playing for Emelec, he participated in the Copa Libertadores. During the tournament he played two games [3].

Ecuadorian Roldosista Party

Known as PRE, was a political party led by his father Abdala Bucaram Ortiz, founded on 18 January 1983. Dalo was the provincial director of Guayas from 2006 to 2008 and National Director of the Party for six years from 2008 to 2013. Dalo left the party, saying that he wanted to pursue his master, spend more time with his family and boost to form new leaders in Guayas.

National Constituent Assembly

(2009 a 2013)

Bucaram was elected to National Constituent Assembly with 428,000 votes for the Ecuadorian Roldosista Party; one of the main objectives of his campaign was to legislate for the benefit of the poor people. His wife, Gabriela Pazmiño, was a member of the same party chosen by the province of Guayas.

(2013 a 2017)

Bucaram and his wife, sought reelection to the second period of the National Assembly, only Bucaram was elected with half a million votes, this way he became the only member of the Ecuadorian Roldosista Party to be elected to office.

At the beginning of the first debate of the report on the new amendments to the Constitution prepared by the Legislative Casual Commission, Dalo Bucaram announced his resignation from his seat under the statement that he was against to the changes approved and applied to the new Constitution promoted by the majority block of the party Alliance País.

Presidential Candidate

On 10 September 2015 the National Electoral Council approved the political party Force Ecuador which has the No.10 as the electoral distinctive. The party has about 600,000 members nationwide. In December, the national director Dalo Bucaram in the headquarters of the party in the north of Guayaquil, announced his decision to run presidential candidate for the upcoming elections of 2017 he also unveiled the first proposal of his government plan: the elimination of induction kitchens.

Controversies

Dalo Bucaram during his first period of Assemblyman (2009) was fined 10% of his monthly salary for the administration of the Assembly after being verbally aggressive towards Betty Amores and other members of Pais Alliance.

In his second period of Assemblyman he announced his resignation from his seat under the statement that he was against to the changes approved and applied to the new Constitution promoted by the majority block of the party Alliance País. He also questioned why Ecuadorian people where not consulted to determine the changes in the constitution that was approved and is in force since 2008 "they trample the rights of people by not consulting them in a referendum" he said.

Despite being under the focus of criticism for the government of his father, Dalo Bucaram has been clear that although he loves and respects his father, his philosophy and political views are his own and they differ from those of his father.Abdalá Jaime Bucaram Pulley (born 25 March 1982, in Guayaquil - Ecuador), he is a lawyer, ex-football player, ex-assembly man and Ecuadorian politician; he’s known for being 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.

On December 1, 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 interest of his constituents.

On December 2015 he announced his candidacy for the presidency of the republic for the upcoming elections of 2017 under the support of his political party Fuerza Ecuador (FE), founded by him, he is the second candidate to announce his decision to pursue the highest office of state.

He was recently 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.