Rocío González Navas

After her husband took office in May 2017, she was appointed delegate of the Presidency to head the Inter-institutional Committee of the Whole Life Plan, a flagship project of the social area promised in the campaign, serving in the position without any remuneration. So far this project has had very little success nor achievement in terms of it was expected. As part of her activities, she accompanies the President on various government paid international tours in which she talks about her experiences on the project with other authorities and first ladies, as she did in September 2017 during the inauguration of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Governmentally, she is referred to as First Lady.

One of the angriest criticisms originated with a purported news clip spread on social media about a traffic stoppage that González caused on Madrid's Gran Vía in order to make purchases, while accompanying her husband as part of his first presidential tour of Europe in December 2017. However the rumor was immediately denied by the radio station whose name had been used without authorization to spread the false news.

After leaving the vice presidency, Moreno claimed he would retire from public life until 2015 when, facing the 2017 presidential elections [es], President Rafael Correa trusted him as ally because of his rather calm image. He was appointed special UN envoy for disability issues, and settled for more than a year in a luxurious apartment on Quai Wilson Street in Geneva, Switzerland, together with Rocío and their daughter Irina. For that apartment he also received luxurious furniture valuated in more than 15.000 EUR from an off-shore company that benefited from a contract facilitated by Moreno.

During the short period that Moreno served as Acting President, since Correa had requested leave for the 2013 presidential campaign [es], González accompanied him to Chile in January of that year for a summit between CELAC and the European Union. Her travel was paid with budget of the government.

Although the formal position of First Lady was suppressed during Rafael Correa's presidency (2007–2017) for it being undemocratic and anachronistic; therefore, his wife Anne Malherbe did not exercise any governmental function, during the 2017 presidential campaign González showed vehemently her interest in occupying this role to support her husband in this way, although she maintained the rejection of the title itself.

When Rafael Correa won the 2006 presidential election [es], his running mate Lenín Moreno automatically became Vice President. This was Rocío González's first brush with Ecuadorian political life. She actively contributed to the comprehensive care project for people with disabilities, and to the Manuela Espejo Solidarity Mission [es], focusing mainly on the accompaniment of families and educational inclusion through recreation.

González met businessman Lenín Moreno at a Carnival party, and after a year of courtship they got married on October 4, 1974. On January 3, 1998, Moreno was shot during an attempted robbery, leaving him unable to walk. Since then González has been an important pillar of his recovery.

Rocío González Navas (born November 6, 1953) is an Ecuadorian businesswoman. She was the First Lady of Ecuador from 2017 until 2021 as the wife of President Lenín Moreno.