Sade Fritschi
Sade Rashel Fritschi Naranjo is an Ecuadorian politician who was the Minister of the Environment from 2023 until 2024 during the first Daniel Noboa administration. She was elected to the National Assembly in 2025.
Personal life
Fritschi was born in the Imbabura Province, but she was raised on the Galápagos Islands.Career
Fritschi became known when she ran Daniel Noboa's presidential campaign in the Galápagos. Her critics say that she has no other record of running a major project or department.Environmental minister
In 2023 the new President Daniel Noboa named her as his Minister of the Environment. She was 26 and the youngest Secretary of State ever appointed as a cabinet minister. She was named before other ministers. Another cabinet member was 30 years old and questions were raised about Fritschi's academic qualifications as her degree was not officially registered. She states in her CV that she has a degree in International Tourism Management.There was a controversy over planning permission that was given to Lavinia Valbonesi who was the President's wife. The permission was given two weeks after the President Daniel Noboa had taken power. The land belonged to the President's wife, but it was the President who had bought the land and his family had a beach residence there. Planning was granted for a "resort", for the construction of new buildings and the destruction of a forest that the local community of Oloncito had campaigned to have protected. The proposal was withdrawn by the First Lady's company within days.