Dalo Bucaram

As a football player, his position was as a midfielder for several clubs in South America. In 2001, he was selected for the U-20 national football team for Ecuador, but only played the opening match of the South American championship. [1] After that match against Venezuela ended in a 0–0 score, manager José María Burbano resigned and Fabian Andrade took over as coach. Bucaram said a political conspiracy prevented him from being selected for any additional games during the tournament [2]. In 2003, while playing for Emelec, he participated in the Copa Libertadores. During the tournament, he played in two games [3].

Ecuadorian Roldosista Party

PRE was a political party led by Bucaram's father Abdala Bucaram Ortiz, founded on 18 January 1983. The younger Bucaram was the provincial director of Guayas from 2006 to 2008, and national director of the party for six years from 2008 to 2013. Bucaram left the party, saying that he wanted to pursue his master's degree, spend more time with his family, and support new leadership in Guayas.

National Constituent Assembly

2009–2013

Bucaram was first elected to the National Assembly with 428,000 votes for the Ecuadorian Roldosista Party. His wife, Gabriela Pazmiño, ran on the same party list as him, and was chosen as MP for the province of Guayas.

2013–2017

Bucaram and his wife sought reelection for a second period in the National Assembly, but only Bucaram was reelected with half a million votes, becoming the only Roldosist member in the Assembly. However, at the beginning of the first debate of the report on a series of controversial amendments to the Constitution prepared by the Assembly, Bucaram announced his resignation under the argument that he was against the ultimately-approved changes promoted by the majority block of País Alliance. He also questioned the lack of consultation (via referendum) to the Ecuadorian populace: "they trample the rights of people by not consulting them in a referendum", he said. Additionally, he justified his decision on his conviction that the office he served did not serve…

Abdala "Dalo" Bucaram was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador on 25 March 1982, son of Abdala Bucaram Ortiz and Maria Rosa Pulley Vergara. He is the third of four brothers: James, Linda and Michel. He completed his high school education at the Moderna Sergio Perez Valdez College in Guayaquil. As an athlete he was part of one of the two most renowned teams in the country, C.S. Emelec, where he began his football career. He also played with Barcelona S.C, Santa Rita and Otubrino Daring Nationally. Internationally, he played for teams such as Chacarita Junior (Argentina) and the Alliance of Montevideo in the Uruguayan second division.

Family

Bucaram's father is Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz, a populist who was President of Ecuador from 10 August 1996, to 6 February 1997, when he was ousted by the Congress of Ecuador for alleged "mental incapacity".

Marriage and sons

He married in 2005 to TV host and assemblywoman Gabriela Pazmiño, with whom he has four children: Dalia, Maria Gabriela, Abdala and Charlotte.

Education

Bucaram studied law at the Metropolitan University of Ecuador. Later, he transferred to the Cooperative University of Colombia in Quito where he graduated with a degree in law from the courts of the Republic in 2008. After graduating as a lawyer, Bucaram specialized in constitutional law at the Universidad de Salamanca of Spain in 2013. He continued his studies and pursued a master's degree in political management from George Washington…