Galo Almeida

He has led Centro Democrático since 2025, when Jimmy Jairala left, and is its provincial director in Pichincha; no elected office is reported for him. Wikipedia places the party at the centre to centre-left. He is its candidate for Mayor of Quito in the 29 November 2026 election.

Career

Elyex describes Almeida as an economist and political adviser who worked as a campaign strategist and political communication adviser before standing for office. He took over Centro Democrático in 2025 after Jimmy Jairala left and is also the party's provincial director in Pichincha. Elyex reports no earlier elected office or candidacy for him and no judicial cases or scandals in reliable media. The party registered him for the Quito mayoralty on 17 August 2026, under list 1, and Primicias reports that he was qualified in September.

Positions

According to Elyex, Almeida's platform centres on productive reactivation, employment and more efficient management of municipal resources, without detailed policies. Wikipedia describes Centro Democrático, founded in 2012 and legalised in October 2024, as centrist to centre-left, with progressivism, personalism and populism as labels. It ran with Citizen Revolution in the Union for Hope alliance in 2021 and backed Jan Topić in 2023, and holds no National Assembly seats or prefectures but 17 of 221 mayoralties.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Elyex · Wikipedia · Primicias · Wikipedia (Spanish)