The political oversight trial of Ecuador’s President Guillermo Laso begins

The Ecuadorian National Assembly convened this meeting Tuesday, May 16th Lawmakers for a session in which the political trial of Ecuador’s President, Guillermo Laso, who the opposition accuses of embezzling public funds, is taking place.

According to the opposition, Lasso incurred in an alleged embezzlementembezzlement, as embezzlement is known in Ecuador, upon knowledge of alleged irregularities in the contract signed by the state company Flota Petrolera del Ecuador (Flopec) and the private company Amazonas Tanker and He did not act to avoid further harm to the state.

Instead, the president’s defense asserts that the contracts were signed under the president’s previous administration. Lenin Moreno (2017-2021) and that under Lasso’s mandate, an audit has been requested by the Comptroller’s Office (Court of Accounts) to renew it in accordance with the terms and Notes made by that agency.

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The government minister, Henri Cocalon, had already announced this Laso will attend the invitation to certify that he “has committed no wrongdoing”.. “The position of the head of state is that, despite all this, he will go to the National Assembly to defend his position and prove the truth,” the minister said.

A source from the National Assembly confirmed to EFE on Sunday that, according to the law, in the first session there will be an intervention by the president and the interrogators. In addition to replying and discussing. “The session was suspended for five days Then comes the vote.

Among the supporters of the lasso sue different parliamentary blocs Such as Union of Hope (Unes), associated with former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017); the Conservative Social Christian Party (PSC), Lasso’s former electoral partner; Pachacotec indigenous movement and some independents.

in the case of opposition Get enough votes for accountability The president, the current vice president, Alfredo Borrero, should assume the presidency.

Lasso has already managed to rescue a similar situation in June 2022In the midst of a wave of protests led by the indigenous movement, the assembly voted on a motion to remove the president due to serious local unrest I got 80 votes.