Throughout this period Lasso was a close ally of Jaime Nebot, who for decades has been a key political figure in the Social Christian Party, PSC, movement which was guilty of some of the worst human rights abuses in Ecuador‘s history during the presidency of León Febres Cordero.

Despite the apparent divisions during this year‘s campaign between Lasso and the PSC candidate Cynthia Viteri, he has deep personal and political connections with her party, both of which are based in the coastal city of Guayaquil.