Raisa Corral
Raisa Irina Corral Alava is an Ecuadorian politician. She is a member of the National Assembly for the Province of Manabi. In 2021 she was briefly the President of the Citizen Revolution Movement.
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Born | c.1988 |
Nationality | Ecuadorian |
Education | Eloy Alfaro Lay University of Manabí |
Occupation | politician |
Political party | Citizen Revolution Movement |
Life
Corral was born in about 1988 into an agricultural family.[1] She studied law at the Eloy Alfaro Lay University of Manabí. In 2019 she was a Technical Director of Professional Development at Ecuador's Ministry of Education.[2]
She is a member of the Citizen Revolution Movement and she was elected to the National Assembly in 2021 to represent Manabi.[3]
In 2021 the Citizen Revolution Movement's leader, Andrés Arauz, and Presidential candidate to be the nation's president was defeated.[4] He resigned after the defeat and Corral was his replacement.[3] She served until August 2021. She was succeeded by Marcela Aguiñaga as president of the Citizen Revolution Movement.[5]
In May 2022 she was welcoming hundreds of food kits from the Chinese embassy for the needy of the province negotiated by Wilma Andrade with the support of Corral[6] who serves on the Ecuador-China Interparliamentary Friendship Group.[1] The Chinese ambassador Chen Guoyou had also helped and 20 wheelchairs were additionally donated.[6] In June she proposed a change in the law to further protect animals like cats and dogs. Her document was supported by fifty legislators. In 2022 it was necessary for someone like the owner of the animals to pay for a private prosecution again someone being cruel to a domestic animal. The change she proposes will allow the state to take action without having to have someone raise a court case.[7]
References
- "VIVA MANABÍ: ANIVERSARIO PROVINCIALIZACIÓN Nº 197". Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-05-25.
- "Raisa Corral" (PDF). radiografiapolitica. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
- "Fuerza Compromiso Social aceptó la renuncia de Andrés Arauz a su Presidencia; Raisa Corral asume el cargo". El Correo Postal: Recibe noticias de todo el mundo y Ecuador (in Spanish). 2021-06-03. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- "Guillermo Lasso: Conservative ex-banker elected Ecuador president". BBC News. 12 April 2021.
- Mendoza, Rebeca (3 May 2022). "Glas appears before a judge in the Guayas Court of Justice". The Cuenca Dispatch.
- Confirmado.net, Roger (2021-12-09). "Embajada de China intensifica su labor social en Ecuador". Confirmado.net (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- "Raisa Corral presentó proyecto de reformas al COIP que tipifica delitos contra los animales de la fauna urbana". Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-05-25.