Santiago Guarderas

This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (August 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Spanish article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 4,847 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Santiago Guarderas]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|es|Santiago Guarderas}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Santiago Guarderas
Metropolitan Mayor of Quito
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 September 2021
Preceded by	Jorge Yunda
Vice Metropolitan Mayor of Quito
In office 14 May 2019 – 29 September 2021
Preceded by	Eduardo del Pozo
Succeeded by	Brith Vaca
Member of the National Congress from the Pichincha Province
In office 5 January 2007 – 30 November 2007
Personal details
Born	Santiago Guarderas Izquierdo 1964 (age 57–58) Quito, Ecuador
Political party	Ecuadorian Union Party (since 2019)
Other political affiliations	Democratic Left (before 2007) Social Christian Party (2007–2019)
Education	Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
Occupation	Lawyer and politician

Santiago Guarderas Izquierdo (born 1964) is an Ecuadorian politician and lawyer. He is the Metropolitan Mayor of Quito since 30 September 2021.

Early life[]

Born in 1964, he studied law at Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador in Quito. He worked on the faculty at the same institution.

Career[]

Guarderas was elected to the National Congress in January 2007 as a member of the Social Christian Party. He left office when the assembly was dissolved in November 2007. He unsuccessfully ran for the National Assembly in 2017.

In 2019, he became Vice Mayor of Quito alongside Jorge Yunda as Mayor. In July 2021, he assumed the role of mayor when there was a leadership dispute with Yunda during protests.^[1]

On 30 September 2021, Guarderas succeeded Yunda as Quito's mayor.^[2]

References[]

External links[]

Media related to Santiago Guarderas at Wikimedia Commons

This article about an Ecuadorian politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t