Lenín Moreno
President of Ecuador from 2017 to 2021
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- Lenín Voltaire Moreno Garcés ( Spanish: [leˈnim bolˈtajɾe moˈɾeno ɣaɾˈses] ; born 19 March 1953) is an Ecuadorian politician who served as the 46th president of Ecuador from 2017 to 2021.
- He was nominated as the candidate for Correa's PAIS Alliance, a social democratic political party, in the 2017 presidential election and won a narrow victory in Ecuador's second round of voting on 2 April 2017.
- By the end of Moreno's presidency he had left office with a staggeringly low approval rating of 9%, the lowest in modern Ecuadorian history.
- Moreno was shot in a 1998 robbery attempt and thereafter has used a wheelchair.
- According to The New York Times , while he was in office from 2017 to 2021, Moreno was the world's only serving head of state to use a wheelchair.
Lenín Voltaire Moreno Garcés (Spanish: [leˈnim bolˈtajɾe moˈɾeno ɣaɾˈses]; born 19 March 1953) is an Ecuadorian politician who served as the 46th president of Ecuador from 2017 to 2021. He was also vice president from 2007 to 2013, serving under President Rafael Correa.
He was nominated as the candidate for Correa's PAIS Alliance, a social democratic political party, in the 2017 presidential election and won a narrow victory in Ecuador's second round of voting on 2 April 2017. However, after his election Moreno drastically shifted his political stance, distancing himself from Correa's leftist legacy in both domestic and foreign policy. By the end of Moreno's presidency he had left office with a staggeringly low approval rating of 9%, the lowest in modern Ecuadorian history. He was expelled from PAIS Alliance in March 2021 after the party's crushing defeat in the 2021 elections.
Moreno was shot in a 1998 robbery attempt and thereafter has used a wheelchair. For his advocacy for people with disabilities, he was nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. According to The New York Times, while he was in office from 2017 to 2021, Moreno was the world's only serving head of state to use a wheelchair.
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