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Quito, June 16 (RHC)-- The presidential candidate of Ecuador, Luisa González, said Thursday that currently the South American country "is so devastated" that it needs the Citizen Revolution movement to bring it forward again, as happened in 2007.

"The country is so devastated that what it needs now is the Revolución Ciudadana.  We already did it in 2007 when we assumed the Presidency of the Republic; there was a country without hope, there was a devastated country, a country where citizens were leaving, where they did not find an opportunity," she said during an interview on the program EnClave Política, broadcast by teleSUR.

In this regard, she stated that, as it happened at that time, now they are back to tell the population that "we have already done it, we have already taken the country forward, we have already turned it into the jaguar of Latin America."

"We are going to do it again and we are going to return health, education, medicines, scholarships, security in our streets, that our young people go out in peace, the opportunities to dream again", she emphasized.

González stressed that she represents the aspiration of many women to break a barrier with capacity, knowledge and training.  Misogynist attacks, attacks on women's honor, are a constant.  Not only in Ecuador, but all over the world.  In the name of those millions of women who suffer political and labor violence, of different types, different kinds and sectors, I assume this challenge in their name as well, with the courage to face it and to demonstrate the capacity that we women have to lead the destinies from our homes to our homeland", Luisa Gonzalez declared.

"We women have that capacity to fulfill all our roles (...) This August 20, Luisa González will be the president of the republic", she said, being her running mate for the Vice Presidency, economist Andrés Arauz. 

Regarding the current situation of the country, Gonzalez indicated that President Guillermo Lasso "looks like a vile capricious person, whose obsession was to become President of the Republic to probably have a presidential sash in a showcase, but who in exchange destroyed the country".

The Ecuadorian presidental candidate recalled that when they were in the Government, for example, homicides went from 17 per 100,000 inhabitants to five per 100,000 inhabitants, however, probably for this year they will close with 34 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.  "We used to compete with Chile for the first place as the safest country, now we beat Haiti in terms of insecurity.  That is what is desperate, what hurts, what is sad about how Guillermo Lasso left the country because of his whim," he stressed.

The candidate added that one of the biggest problems facing Ecuador is security and considered that the country "is not for improvisation", that it is necessary to look for the best team to take the nation forward. 

"My main advisor is named Rafael Correa.  Tell me who knows the country's economy better, among other sectors; who has shown that he already knows what to do, how to do it, with beneficial results for the country: 2 million people came out of poverty, companies sold like never before, we exported.  Rafael Correa has experience.  We are not here to experiment.  We are going with the best and he will be my main advisor," she affirmed and specified that the accusations of crimes against the former president is full of vices of legality, which will follow its course and will be dismantled "by the force of truth."