Annabella Emma Azín Arce (born 30 May 1961) is an

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politician,

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of medicine, and wife of

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. She has four children, including

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. She is the president of the Crusade for a New Humanity Foundation, caring for those afflicted by disease for over 20 years. Azín has been a member of the

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for

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and a member of the

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, both times representing the Institutional Renewal Party of National Action. She was a binomial candidate for the office of

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with her husband in the Ecuadorian presidential elections of 2009 and 2013.

Biography

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. Azín has campaigned for the creation of a successor to the political party

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. On 9 October 2022 she was given a national award by

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and

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. The award was for the

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which she chairs. Her son

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was elected the youngest ever

in the

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References

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