The Nation’s Report will take place on the Social Platform next Wednesday, May 24, when Lasso marks his second year in office and the date on which the 1822 Battle of Pichincha is celebrated, which then sealed the country’s Spanish colonial independence.

Lasso, who came to power on May 24, 2021 for a four-year term, announced last Wednesday the so-called “crucifixion” – a constitutional mechanism that allows the president of the republic to dissolve parliament, call early elections and rule until then. through executive orders.

In this snap election, expected to take place on 20 August (with the possibility of a second round on 15 October), Ecuadorians will elect a President, Vice President and 137 members of the National Assembly.

With the “cross death” lasso, which Apparently, he will not run for re-election, his term was reduced and also he avoided entering the final stages of a political censorship lawsuit in the Legislative Assembly, which was dominated by the opposition and which accused him of embezzlement or embezzlement of public money in state-owned companies.

Most of the opposition groups that accepted the “crucifixion” statement said they had received more than the 92 votes needed to condemn Lasso. in a vote that was to take place this Saturday.

If the Chamber removed Lasso, Vice President Alfredo Borrero, a surgeon by profession who insists on his loyalty to the president, would take his place.

An extraordinary electoral process has now begun and the National Electoral Council is expected to formally announce this election by next Wednesday.

These new authorities would complete the remaining period of the incumbent legislature; that is, until May 2025, when others, elected for a regular administration for four years, come to power.

EFE