As ex-president Rafael Correa's Citizen Revolution Movement party (a breakaway from the ruling PAIS Alliance) was unable to register as a party, on 18 August 2020 the political coalition Unión por la Esperanza (UNES), comprising the parties Centro Democrático [es] (a Guayas-based centrist party led by Jimmy Jairala [es]) and Fuerza Compromiso Social [es] (a centre-left party that before 2018 had been opposed to Correa), announced that its presidential candidate would be former Correa minister Andrés Arauz with Correa as his running mate. Arrauz is an economist, previously a banker (until 2015) and Minister of Knowledge and Human Talent from 2015 to 2017, and a "largely unknown" political figure.[25] However, the vice presidential position on the ticket for Correa, president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017,[26] was rejected by Ecuador's National Electoral Council (CNE), as he had been convicted for corruption.[27] Carlos Rabascall was then selected as Arauz's running mate.[28]