Pierina Sara Mercedes Correa Delgado (born 30 May 1961) is an Ecuadorian architect and politician, sister of the former

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Rafael Correa Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (; born 6 April 1963), known as Rafael Correa, is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation ...

and a

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member for

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Biography

Correa was born in

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. Her father was Rafael Correa Icaza, born in

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on 23 March 1935. Her mother is Norma Delgado Rendón, also from the

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(Los Ríos Province), born on 1 September 1939. Correa has three other siblings: Fabricio, Rafael and Bernarda Correa. She graduated in 2002 as an architect from the

Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, UCSG, is a private, catholic, higher education center, along with Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Ecuador. History UCSG was created on May 17, 1962, at the request of the board of ...

, and also has a Master's Degree in High Performance Sports from the

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and the

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Political career

In 2009, Correa was an unsuccessful candidate for the Prefect of Guayas by the

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. In 2019, she was a candidate for Prefect of Guayas for the

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in the 2019 Guayas provincial elections, where she was second with 17.4% of the votes. In 2011, Correa was elected president of the Guayas Sports Federation (FEDEGUAYAS), as representative of Ministry of Health. However, she was dismissed from her position in January 2019 by the Sports Secretariat, because the poor state of the sports venues managed by the entity. Correa was a candidate for the National Assembly in the 2021 legislative elections, where she topped the list of national assemblymen for the

References

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