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The National Assembly (Parliament) convened the legislators for a meeting on the following Tuesday, at which political trial of head of state Guillermo Lasso, whom the opposition accuses
The National Assembly (Parliament) convened the legislators for a meeting on the following Tuesday, at which political trial of head of state Guillermo Lasso, whom the opposition accuses of alleged embezzlement.
On the basis of the Organic Law on the Legislative Function and by order of the President of the Parliament, Virgilio Sakisela, the General Secretariat of the Assembly 872nd session of the Plenum convenedwhich will take place on Tuesday at 10:00 local time at the headquarters of the legislature of the canton of Quito.
According to the call made this Sunday, the first item of the day is the National Anthem of Ecuador and the second item is the National Anthem of Ecuador. “a political process against the Constitutional President of the Republic, Guillermo Alberto Santiago Lasso Mendoza.
According to the opposition, Lasso incurred in connection with the alleged theft learning of alleged breaches in a contract signed by the state-owned company Flota Petrolera del Ecuador (Flopec) and the private firm Amazonas Tanker, and failing to take action to prevent further harm to the state.
Instead, the presidential defense argues that contracts were signed under the previous administration former President Lenin Moreno (2017-2021) and that under the mandate of Lasso, a review was requested from the Accounts Chamber (Accounts Chamber) with a view to extending them in accordance with the conditions and observations made by that body.
Last Tuesday from 88 votes in favour, 23 against and 5 abstentions, The Legislative Assembly approved the entry into the last phase of the process, where there will be a request to Lasso, who must defend himself before the Opposition Majority House, which retains control of the Assembly, in accordance with the elections held this Sunday.
Government Minister Henry Kukalon has already announced that the President will take part in the call for ratification. “that he did not commit any wrongdoing.”
Lasso “did not commit any theft. There is no evidence yet, they have not been able to prove it because it does not exist,” Kukalon said last Wednesday, noting that the impeachment process “legally has no head and no tail.”
“The position of the Head of State is that, despite all this, he is going to go to the National Assembly to defend his position and demonstrate the truth,” the minister said.
The official believed that the trial against Lasso “was born, developed and will end without any proof, without any arguments and with many vices, but the President of the Republic, despite this, owes a message to his people.
In the House, the ruler claims that “There is no embezzlement on the part of the president, not even an omission that there is no crime against public administration in criminal cases, in the case called Flopets,” he noted.
A source in the National Assembly confirmed this Sunday that EFE that, according to the law, President will intervene at the first meeting and interpellents. Also, answer and discussion.
“The session has been suspended for five days and Then comes the vote.” pointed.
While only 116 of the 137 members of the Assembly attended last Tuesday’s plenary meeting, votes in favor of continuing the process there were only four fewer of them than the necessary oppositions 92 to achieve its goal of removing the President, equivalent to two-thirds of the Assembly.
Among those in favor of prosecuting Lasso are various parliamentary groups such as Union of Hope (Unes), close to former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017); the conservative Social Christian Party (PSC), Lasso’s former electoral partner; the Pachakutic indigenous movement and some independents.
Thus, the opposition opposed the report, which recommended that proceedings be initiated due to lack of evidence against Lasso, prepared by the Supervisory Commission, whichand last Saturday he failed to approve the document and went to the plenary session of the Legislative Assembly.
If the opposition wins enough votes to remove the president, it must The current vice president, Alfredo Borrero, will take over as president.
Lasso has already managed to save in 2022 a similar situation in June 2022, when, in the midst of a wave of protests led by an indigenous movement, the Assembly voted to resign the president due to serious local unrest, which collected 80 votes.
Now the president has even missed an opportunity by reaching this extreme scenario, resort to the so-called “cross death”, a constitutional figure that allows the president to dissolve the Assembly and call an early general election to govern until then by decree.
This possibility could give rise, as various social movements warn, outbreak of protests from groups that claim to have been harmed by Lasso’s neoliberal policies.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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