Fabián Alarcón

Infobox_President | name= Fabián Alarcón


nationality=Ecuadorian
order=Interim President of Ecuador
term_start=February 6 1997
term_end=February 9 1997
predecessor=Abdalá Bucaram
successor=Jamil Mahuad
birth_date= Birth date and age|1947|4|14|mf=y
birth_place=Quito, Ecuador
party=Alfarista Radical Front
vicepresident=
order2=Interim President of Ecuador
term_start2=February 11 1997
term_end2=August 10 1998
predecessor2=Rosalía Arteaga
successor2=Jamil Mahuad
vicepresident=Rosalía Arteaga Serrano and Pedro Aguayo Cubillo

Fabián Ernesto Alarcón Rivera (born April 14 1947) was President of Ecuador from 6 February 1997 to 9 February 1997 and from February 11 1997 to August 10 1998.

Alarcón was born in Quito. He was head of the Congress from August 1995 to February 1997, when he was made acting president due to the impeachment of President Abdalá Bucaram. This deepened the political crisis in Ecuador as vice-president Rosalía Arteaga challenged Alarcón's assumption of the presidency. Arteaga then became president for two days but Alarcón was then restored. He gave up the presidency after early elections were held in 1998, in which he did not run. In 1999 he was arrested on corruption charges, but was later released. Alarcón is a member of the Alfarista Radical Front.

External links

* [http://www.presidencia.gov.ec/modulos.asp?id=28/ Official Website of the Ecuadorian Government about the country President's History]