The Citizens' Revolution (Spanish: La Revolución Ciudadana) was a political and socioeconomic project formulated by a coalition of left-wing politicians with a variety of social organizations in Ecuador.
Through the implementation of the Citizens' Revolution, President Rafael Correa, who was the leader of PAIS Alliance, has sought since 2008 to gradually achieve the socialist reconstruction of Ecuadorian society.
[3] The Five Axes underpin the 2009–2013 National Plan for Good Living which "establishes new horizons aimed to materialize and radicalize the project for a change of the Citizens' Revolution for the construction of a Plurinational and Intercultural State and, finally, for the achievement of Good Living for all Ecuadorians.
"[4] Ecuador decided to end its credit relationship with the International Monetary Fund[5] and renegotiated oil contracts and rejoined OPEC.
Following the rightward turn of the Alianza PAIS, allies of Correa founded a new leftist party named for the philosophy, the Citizen Revolution Movement.