Abdalá Jaime Bucaram Pulley also known as Abdalá Bucaram Junior and Dalo Bucaram is an Ecuadorian politician and former football player.
Background
He is the son of Abdalá Bucaram, former President of Ecuador. He was born as the second son of Abdalá Bucaram and María Rosa Pulley Vergara and is of Lebanese background. During the presidency of his father, on 11 September 1996, the car in which Bucaram was travelling was shot.
In an interview Bucaram has said that during the presidency of his father, people have tried to kidnap him twice.
Education
George Washington University. University of Salamanca.
Career
One of the attackers was shot down by the police. Bucaram was not hurt in the incident. The motives of the incident have remained unclear.
As a football player he has played as a midfielder for several clubs in South America.
In 2001 he was selected for the Ecuador national under-20 football team but only played the opening game of the South American championship. After that game against Venezuela ended in a score of 0-0 manager José María Andrade resigned and Fabián Burbano took over as coach.
Bucaram said that a political conspiracy prevented him from being selected for any further games during the tournament. Accusations were made against Bucarum that he was only selected because of a friendship between his father and coach Andrade.
Bucaram denied this accusations.
During the tournament he played two games. In 2004 technical coach Severino Vasconcelos of Chilean Club de Deportes Santiago Morning asked him to join the club of coach Carlos Ramos. He ended his professional football career in 2005 at Unión San Felipe in Chile.
In the time leading up to the election he, in his position of party leader, removed some of the old leaders in the party which had been set up by his father in 1982.
The second session of the Assembly was installed on 14 May 2013. Bucaram has always supported the claim of innocence by his father.
He has tried to register his father for the 2013 Presidential election. But the registration was denied by the electoral college as Bucaram senior was not present in Ecuador.
Bucaram senior is in self-imposed exile in Panama.
Politics
His wife Gabriela Pazmiño, member of the same party, was chosen for Guayas Province. During the first session he was once fined 10% of his monthly salary by the administration of the Assembly after being verbally aggressive towards Betty Amores, María Augusta Calle and Dora Aguirre, all members of the PAIS Alliance. Bucaram was also involved in a fight with PAIS Alliance member Fernando Cordero Cueva after Cordero made a remark about Bucaram"s father.
Membership
Bucaram was elected to the first session (2009-2013) of the National Assembly as a member of the Ecuadorian Roldosist Party (Spanish:Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano) for the National Constituency. Only Abdalá Bucaram was chosen, he thereby became the sole member of the Ecuadorian Roldosist Party in the National Assembly.