An Ecuadorian legislative commission, which is investigating alleged acts of corruption involving a circle close to the country’s president, conservative Guillermo Lasso, has recommended impeachment of the president for censorship.
The Occasional Specialized Commission for Truth, Justice and the Fight against Corruption, in the case called “El Gran Padrino”, with six votes in favor of the motion and one against, recommended that the plenary session of the National Assembly (Parliament) question the president for the acts of corruption investigated.
These acts revolve around an alleged plot of corruption in public companies where the businessmen Danilo Carrera, brother-in-law of the president, and Rubén Cherres, a man close to the ruling party who was also the subject of a police investigation filed for his alleged relationship with a network, appeared. of drug trafficking
The resolution is based on numerals 1 and 2 of article 129 of the Constitution of the Republic, on the possibility of a political trial of the President for crimes “against the security of the State” or for “concussion, bribery, embezzlement (embezzlement) or illicit enrichment”.
That article also establishes that “in order to initiate the political trial, the admissibility ruling of the Constitutional Court will be required, but prior criminal prosecution will not be necessary.”
Assemblywoman Viviana Veloz, who chairs the parliamentary commission, indicated in a Twitter message that the recommendation to prosecute Lasso was also given at a time when the president has apparently lost the trust of the people.
“When trust in a leader ends, there is no choice but to change him. No people deserve to live in despair. Getting rid of the corruption of a bad president is not only a political obligation, it is an ethical and moral imperative. Ecuador hopes so! !” added Speed.
The assembly member of the Unión por la Esperanza (Unes) bench, close to former president Rafael Correa, added that the reports on the investigation prepared by her commission will be sent to the president of Parliament, Virgilio Saquicela, so that he can continue with the process and inform of the plenary session of the Assembly.
GOVERNMENT CRITICAL REPORT
For his part, the Minister of Government (Politics), Henry Cucalón, has criticized the report of the Commission that is investigating the case and has said that even opposition analysts have rejected it.
“Many voices throughout the country have repudiated this report, including people who are critical of the government led by President Guillermo Lasso,” Cucalón said in statements to the media and posted on social networks.
“I describe it as a tome, a document that has neither head nor tail. For me without any legal value, not binding,” added the minister.
However, he admitted that “in the end, the plenary session of the National Assembly in the coming days will be able to accept it or not and even so, if this tome were to be known and approved, it must be motivated and argued in the presentation of a impeachment trial”.
The pronouncement of the legislative commission came at a time when the government seems weakened after conceding an electoral defeat in the local elections on February 5, when it was also defeated by the opposition in a referendum that the ruling party promoted on issues such as security, democracy and environment, among others.
A low approval rating for the presidential administration in some polls has also contributed to the deterioration of the image of the Government, which has received threats of protests from social sectors such as the indigenous movement, which complains about the high cost of living and feels mocked by the alleged lack of compliance with some agreements reached with the Executive.
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