The political exercise of surplus value and private property in Ecuador during the last period of the Citizen's Revolution ; El ejercicio político de la plusvalía y la propiedad privada en Ecuador en el último período de la Revolución Ciudadana ; O exercício político da mais-valia e da propriedade privada no Equador no último período da Revolução Cidadã

In 2016, amid resistances, the so-called Ley de Plusvalía (Law of Surplus Value) was approved, with the objective to combating real estate speculation and redistribute wealth. Detractors of the law argued that it negatively impacted the real estate sector and constituted an expropriation of family heritage. In 2018, with a change in the government's ideological direction, the law was repealed along with other reforms through a popular consultation. While the arguments of the detractors motivated their resistance, the repeal was not essentially in response to favoring the interests of economic and real estate elites, but rather served as part of an initiative to bury a political-economic project. In this sense, the article analyzes the social and economic events that shaped the conjuncture for its approval and repeal, as well as the capacity of private property to appropriate the masses in the parliamentary exercise and trigger political processes.** ** This paper is part of the research "Captura de plusvalía en Ecuador: un instrumento regulador de la especulación inmobiliaria y efectos en el sector de la construcción y la recaudación fiscal (2021)", carried out at the Universitat de Barcelona. The research analyzes quantitatively the impact of the Surplus Value Law on the performance of the construction sector, the real estate market, and its influence on municipal tax revenue. ; En 2016, en medio de resistencias, se aprobó la denominada Ley de Plusvalía, cuyo objetivo era combatir la especulación inmobiliaria y distribuir la riqueza. Los detractores de la ley argumentaron que esta afectaba al sector inmobiliario y era expropiatoria del patrimonio familiar. En 2018, en el cambio de dirección ideológica del gobierno, la ley es derogada junto con otras reformas mediante consulta popular. Si bien los argumentos de los detractores motivaron su resistencia, la derogatoria no responde esencialmente al favorecimiento de los intereses de élites económicas e inmobiliarias, sino que cumple su papel en la iniciativa por ...