León Roldós Aguilera | |
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| Vice President of Ecuador | |
| In office 2 July 1981 – 10 August 1984 | |
| President | Osvaldo Hurtado |
| Preceded by | Osvaldo Hurtado |
| Succeeded by | Blasco Peñaherrera Padilla |
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| Born | (1942-07-21)21 July 1942 (age 83) |
| Political party | Ethics and Democracy Network |
León Roldós Aguilera (born 21 July 1942) is anEcuadorian politician. He was born inGuayaquil in 1942. His mother died during his birth. He studied law at the stateUniversity of Guayaquil. He became secretary of the Municipality of Guayaquil under MayorAssad Bucaram (his brother's father in law), of the populist partyConcentración de Fuerzas Populares. He also had a private practice of law and consultancy mostly to the banking sector. He later became a professor in the University of Guayaquil and a dean of the law school of theUniversidad Laica Vicente Rocafuerte.
In 1979, his brotherJaime Roldós was elected president in a ticket representing the alliance betweenConcentración de Fuerzas Populares and the Christian Democrat PartyDemocracia Popular. He was then appointed chairman of the Monetary Board (Junta Monetaria).
President Jaime Roldós died in an airplane crash while in office; theNational Congress elected León Roldós to serve out the term (1981–84) as vice-president,[1] with PresidentOsvaldo Hurtado, ofDemocracia Popular. León Roldós did not enjoy a good relationship with President Hurtado, having opposed the assumption of the private external debt by the government (known as the "sucretización"), among other economic policies.
On 31 October 1994, León Roldós was elected rector of the University of Guayaquil, and served two terms, which were acknowledged to have revitalized this institution.
León Roldosran for president in 1992 under the banner of theSocialist Party of Ecuador and in a second attempt in2002 as an independent; he received then 15.4% of the vote and barely missed the runoff election. He was also elected Congressman for theProvince of Guayas.
In the2006 Ecuadorian general election he ran again, this time in a ticket of the alliance of "Ethics and Democracy Network" (Red Etica y Democrática) and of theDemocratic Left Party. He raked a fourth place of the vote, receiving 14.8% of the votes cast.
Note: León Roldós does not belong to theEcuadorian Roldosist Party, which is named after his brother, former PresidentJaime Roldós.
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| Preceded by | Vice President of Ecuador 1981–1984 | Succeeded by |
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