Ecuador: CONAIE sets action plan for runoff elections

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00:00The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador held a plurinational popular assembly

00:05to define a plan of action for the runoff election under defense of the SACHA field.

00:10The convention aimed at establishing a consensus position with a view to the two candidates

00:14for the next ballot in April, such as the unanimous position was not achieved during

00:18the first round due to divergences within the Amazonian groups.

00:22Several organizations of the Central Highlands supported the candidacy of President Daniel

00:26Endopoa, while the National Federation of Farmers, Indigenous and Black Organizations

00:30is leaning towards the campaign of Luisa González.

00:33In this regard, CONAI President Leonidas Issa reaffirmed his commitment to democratic respect

00:38of all positions within the movement.

00:48In the time of progressivism, we have faced it head on because oligarchic groups have

00:53also benefited, and at this moment they are being subjects for their own disputes, but

00:58of course, saying that they want to take the conscience of the most humble to a neoliberal

01:02right wing.

01:03They are not going to achieve that.

01:06Here there is a rebellious people, a people that wants to fight, and that is going to

01:11defend the rights of the poorest people.

01:14Indeed, we need if we are from the progressive left sector, environmentalists, feminists,

01:20who respect sexual diversities, all identities, we need to be critical and self-critical.

01:27If we do not look at our own problems, in each organization, how are we going to end

01:32up accusing what the traditional right wing does, accusing the citizenship?