Quito, March 4 (EFE). – Ecuador’s government minister, Henry Cocalon, lamented this Saturday that the National Assembly “has once again failed the country” by accepting the commission’s spin-off report, because “this document lacks legal validity,” he said, “it is not binding and it is an arrangement of corrections and corrections.”
This statement was made through a statement released shortly after the assembly approved the report of the committee, which is investigating allegations of corruption involving a circle close to Governor Guillermo Lasso, and which recommended the dismissal of the president due to oversight.
The official wondered that – according to whim and convenience – the report excluded the personalities that should be investigated: “a real attack on reason and logic,” according to the government ministry’s statement.
Kokalon stressed that the government “has never questioned the powers of political control that the national parliament enjoys constitutionally.”
On this occasion, however, he refused “an attempt to fabricate a story to try to set up a political trial against the President of the Republic; because this is not an act of control, but a clear destabilization.”
In the same way, he admonished that “in the face of criticism and ridicule from public opinion, as part of the foundations on which treason to the homeland was first laid and then forced to retreat from it.”
Subsequently, they proposed a devolution by omission, in Article 129 No. 2 of the Constitution, which they described as “Dante from the legal point of view and perverted from the political point of view”, as well as adding “like all good. Fiction has morals, what is built on lies , collapses. They built a case with lying cards: one is removed and everything collapses.
Kokalon considered that the report would “get nowhere”, which is why he noted that certain sectors, recognizing this, “came up with ideas such as declaring lasso mentally incapacitated or threatening violence in the streets,” he said. Writing.
“It has been proven that some members of the council never cared about fighting corruption, but rather it was merely a pretext for persecution and instability, and this report is living proof of that,” Kokalon said.
He noted that the report provides no evidence linking Laso to what he is accused of, and that is why “there is absolutely no basis for a trial of this kind.”
“These unfortunate tragedies will not distract the government, which continues to work for the well-being of our country. Today we are between democratic stability and uncertainty. Ecuadorians prefer stability that allows us to work in peace, carry out and progress,” he concluded.
National Assembly
A total of 104 of the 125 assembly members present at Saturday’s session approved the report, 18 voted against and 3 abstained in the meeting whose exclusive topic was discussion of the report of the Occasional Specialized Commission on Truth, Justice and Anti-Corruption. In the case called “Encuentro”, also known as “The Great Godfather”.
The vote paved the way for a lawmaker to formally submit the request for impeachment, which would require the support of at least 46 MPs.
Last Wednesday, with six votes in favor and one against, the committee recommended that the Plenary Session of the National Assembly (parliament) lasso be investigated for alleged acts of corruption.
The acts revolved around an alleged conspiracy of corruption in public companies in which businessman Danilo Carrera, the president’s son-in-law, and Rubén Cheris, a man close to the ruling party was also the subject of a police investigation over his allegations. The relationship with the drug trafficking network, which has been archived.
The decision was supported by Numbers 1 and 2 of Article 129 of the Constitution, regarding the possibility of conducting a political trial for the President of the Republic on charges of committing crimes “against state security” or “concussion, bribery, embezzlement (embezzlement) or unlawful enrichment.”
This article also states that “in order to proceed with a political trial, it will be necessary for a judgment of admissibility by the Constitutional Court, but a prior criminal trial will not be necessary.” EFE
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