Empate hegemónico y derrota en alargue. Sobre las raíces de la extraña transición Correa-Moreno en Ecuador

The political turn of Lenín Moreno, heir apparent of the previous Ecuadorian pres- ident Rafael Correa, was an unexpected political event. However, this change of di- rection did not take place in a vacuum. Based on Portantiero’s concept of “hegemonic tie”, the text argues that, after multiple electoral successes, a certain levelling between the correísta bloc and its socio-political adversaries acted as a backdrop for this odd transition. In particular, the political impasse occurred thanks both to the inability of correísmo to play a leading role in society and to the recovered activism on the part of the Ecuadorian right, favoured by its structural advantages. Finally, the Citizens’ Revo- lution proved incapable of disputing a war of positions and of a capillary reform of the country’s common sense, which facilitated Moreno’s tricky change of shirt, thus paving the way back to neoliberalism.