Anabella Azín | |
Office: | National Congress of Ecuador (Province of Guayas) |
Term Start: | 2007 |
Term End: | 2008 |
Office2: | Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly |
Term Start2: | 2008 |
Term End2: | 2008 |
Birth Name: | Annabella Emma Azín Arce |
Birth Place: | Guayaquil, Ecuador |
Birth Date: | 30 May 1961 |
Occupation: | Politician, activist, and physician |
Spouse: | Álvaro Noboa |
Party: | PRIAN |
Children: | 4, including Daniel Noboa Azin |
Annabella Emma Azín Arce (born May 30 1961) is an Ecuadorian politician, doctor of medicine, and wife of Álvaro Noboa.[1] She is president of the Crusade for a New Humanity Foundation, caring for those afflicted by disease for over 20 years.[2]
Azín has been a member of the National Congress of Ecuador for Guayas Province and a member of the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly, both times representing the Institutional Renewal Party of National Action. She was a binomial candidate for the office of Vice President of Ecuador with her husband in the Ecuadorian presidential elections of 2009 and 2013.[3]
She has four children, including President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa, the youngest elected president in Ecuador's history.
left|thumb|Virgilio Saquicela and Marcela Holguín present an award in Guayaquil to Azin's foundation on October 9 2022Azín was born on 30 May 1961. She is the eldest of three daughters born to Giorgio Azín and Grecia Arce. She earned a doctorate in medicine from the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil.[4]
Azín hosted Ecuador Fashion Week on 17 September 2015. She accepted the invitation of Cecilia Niemes, director of Ecuador Fashion Week, to host the venue after Azín completed her master's degree. She participated in protest marches against the government of Rafael Correa.[5]
Azín has campaigned for the creation of a successor to the political party PRIAN.[6] [7]
On 9 October 2022, she was given a national award by Virgilio Saquicela and Marcela Holguín. The award was for the Crusade for a New Humanity Foundation, which she chairs.[8]
Her son, Daniel Noboa Azin, was elected the youngest-ever President of Ecuador in the 2023 Ecuadorian general election.[9] [10]