Accused of treason by Rafael Correa after his time in his government
One of the biggest questions about the February elections is why Correismo chose Diego Borja as a candidate for the vice presidency, accompanying Luisa Gonzalez?
Normally, Borja’s candidacy should have been the most remote and unimaginable possibility for that movement. What’s more, his candidacy is completely unnatural for them. Accused of treason Rafael Correa After his time in his government, Borja had the greatest sanction imaginable on his shoulders so that the leader of Correismo would never accept him: that of traitor.
If the emergence and consolidation of Luisa González as a leader and presidential candidate (there are already two candidates) arose as a product of the psychosis that Rafael Correa has with the issue of betrayal (he is a full-blooded Stalinist) after his experience with Lenín Moreno, the one who has chosen or accepted the application of Diego Borja escapes all logic.
“Tremendous betrayal,” Correa said in 2012 when the firecracker of the supposedly false signatures that Borja had collected for his political movement exploded. Although, twelve years later, he has forgiven him, maintaining something that he would not maintain with any other character who has distanced himself from him, the truth is that his nomination remains a question: “he didn’t betray me, he confronted me,” he said when he told him. candidate. Would you say the same about Alberto Acostyear Gustavo Larrea? Obviously, even with the two of them, Diego Borja never took to the streets to shout against Correa. Why does he forgive Borja then?
The truth is that with the firecracker that exploded after the revelations about the relations that a Borja company has with a Petroecuador contractor, one is tempted to think that the reason why Borja overlooks the “tremendous betrayal” is, precisely, because of the insane profits that its financing gives to the contractor’s work. Profits ranging from 60% to 70% of what the company contractor receives from Petroecuadorwhich makes it a very strange business and to some extent inexplicably good: why does he receive so much if he is, according to him, only the financier? The only explanation there is, for now, is that Borja is a very good match: especially for high-spending seasons such as campaigns.
