On Saturday, Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso introduced that he appointed Gustavo Manrique as the brand new Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, changing Juan Carlos Holguin, who resigned through the day.
“I highlight the work done by Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Holguín and regret his resignation. On Monday, @GustavoManriq_M will be sworn in to assume this position,” the president wrote on his Twitter account.
Manrique served till in the present day as Minister of Environment, Water, and Ecological Transition.
The appointment occurred shortly after Holguín resigned as overseas minister.
In a letter addressed to President Lasso, Holguín indicated that the choice was as a consequence of private causes.
“I have executed the mandate he gave me to serve Ecuador, always acting justly and in law, to safeguard the high interests of the State permanently,” Holguín mentioned within the letter, revealed via his account on the identical social community.
At the identical time, he celebrated “the successful appointment of Gustavo Manrique” as his successor.
Holguín, a businessman linked to the ruling Creando Oportunidades (CREO) motion, led by Lasso himself, has held the publish of overseas minister since January 2022 after serving as ad-honorem ambassador-at-large for strategic points.
Under that place, Holguín led what was referred to as the “diplomacy of vaccines”, via which the South American nation obtained biologicals to immunize the inhabitants towards COVID-19.