“Regain motherland”: populism and institutional reform in Rafael Correa’s speech in the 2006 Presidential Elections in Ecuador
Abstract
. It is analysed the ideological characteristics of Rafael Correa’s speech during the presidential elections of 2006 from a political philosophical and pragmatic-discursive point of view. Correa will carry out a Laclausian reading of historical time, translating that the crisis of representation of the country served as the root of an outbreak or populist moment. Based on this, the populist discourse that will take Correa to power in 2007 will result in the use of two basic argumentative frameworks: 1) to locate traditional political parties (“partidocracia”) as antagonistic to the people and 2) to propose a constitutional reform through a Constituent Assembly. It is concluded with a critical interpretation of the limits between popular mobilization and its institutionalism.
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