Abdalá Bucaram, Jr.
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Bucaram in 2010
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| Member of the National Assembly for the National Constituency | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In office 31 July 2009 – 1 December 2014 |
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25 March 1982 Guayaquil, Ecuador |
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| Political party | Ecuadorian Roldosist Party | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Gabriela Pazmiño | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Association football career
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2005 | CDS Santa Rita | ||
| 2001–2002 | Colo-Colo | ||
| 2002 | Barcelona | ||
| 2003 | Alianza de Montevideo | ||
| 2003 | Emelec | ||
| 2004 | Audax Octubrina | ||
| 2004 | Santiago Morning | ||
| 2005 | Unión San Felipe | ||
| Total | 85 | (17) | |
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| 2001 | Ecuador U–20 | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Abdalá Jaime "Dalo" Bucaram Pulley (born 25 March 1982, in Guayaquil, Ecuador), he is a lawyer, ex-football player, ex-assembly man and Ecuadorian politician; he’s known for being the son of former President Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz.
After his retirement from professional football at age 24, he began his political career by being elected to office, as an Assemblyman with 428,000 votes in 2009 and in 2014 was re-elected with 500,000.
On December 1, 2014 he announced his resignation from his position as National Assemblyman due to his strong convictions that the office he served did not serve the best interest of his constituents.
On December 2015 he announced his candidacy for the presidency of the republic for the upcoming elections of 2017 under the support of his political party Fuerza Ecuador (FE), founded by him, he is the second candidate to announce his decision to pursue the highest office of state.
He was recently invited to the XIII Latin American Summit of Political Marketing and Governance, event that brings together the leading strategists and political consultants of the world.
Abdala "Dalo" Bucaram was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador on March 25, 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 relevant teams in the country C.S. Emelec where he began his football carrier. 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.
His father is Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz, a populist that was President of Ecuador from August 10, 1996 to February 6, 1997, when he was ousted by the Congress of Ecuador for alleged "mental incapacity".
He married in 2005 the TV host and ex-Assembly woman Gabriela Pazmiño, with whom he has four children: Dalia, Maria Gabriela, Abdala and Charlotte.
He studied law at the Metropolitan University of Ecuador. Later, he was 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, he 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 University.
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