Political Parties

Ecuador has a multi-party system with numerous parties, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.

Parliamentary Parties:

  • Social Christian Party (Partido Social Cristiano) — Christian democracy
  • Party of the Democratic Left (Partido Izquierda Democrática) — Social democracy
  • PAIS Alliance (Alianza PAIS) — Democratic socialism
  • Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country (Movimiento Unidad Plurinacional Pachakutik – Nuevo País) — Indigenous rights Democratic socialism
  • National Democratic Coalition (Concertación Nacional Democrática) — Center left
  • Municipalist Movement for National Integrity (Movimiento Municipalista por la Integridad Nacional)
  • January 21 Patriotic Society Party (Partido Sociedad Patriótica 21 de Enero) — Conservatism
  • Institutional Renewal Party of National Action (Partido Renovador Institucional de Acción Nacional) — Right-wing populism
  • Ecuadorian Roldosist Party (Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano) — Left-wing populsim
  • Democratic People’s Movement (Movimiento Popular Democrático) — Communism

Non-parliamentary parties:

  • A New Option (Una Nueva Opción, UNO)
  • Alfarista Radical Front (Frente Radical Alfarista)
  • Citizen’s Power Movement (Movimiento Poder Ciudadano)
  • Communist Party of Ecuador (Partido Comunista del Ecuador, PCE)
  • Concentration of People’s Forces (Concentración de Fuerzas Populares)
  • Conservative Party (Partido Conservador)
  • Democratic Transformation (Transformación Democrática)
  • Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party (Partido Liberal Radical Ecuatoriano)
  • Freedom Party (Partido Libertad)
  • Marxist–Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista del Ecuador, PCMLE)
  • Movement Forwards Ecuador (Movimiento Fuerza Ecuador)
  • People’s Democracy-Christian Democrat Union (Democracia Popular-Unión Demócrata Cristiana)
  • Provincial Integration Movement (Movimiento Integración Provincial)
  • Socialist Party – Broad Front (Partido Socialista-Frente Amplio, PS-FA)
  • Solidary Fatherland Movement (Movimiento Patria Solidaria)
  • Workers’ Party of Ecuador (Partido de los Trabajadores del Ecuador, PTE)