The former Ecuadorian president referred to President Guillermo Lasso’s decision to dissolve Congress and call early elections.
The former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correaconsidered the dissolution of Congress and subsequent call for early elections by the president as illegal William Lasso: “This is a coup d’état – there are no causes – but it is also the last nail in his own political coffin.”
The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, is in the midst of a political crisis and faces a possible dismissal, which is why he decreed this Wednesday the dissolution of Congress and the holding of early elections. In this context, the right-wing president ordered “dissolve the National Assembly due to a serious political crisis and internal commotion”according to the document released by the presidency.
The electoral body must call legislative and presidential elections within seven days after the publication of the decree of dissolution in the Official Gazette.
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For Correa it is an “illegal” maneuver
Rafael Correa, whose mandate runs from January 15, 2007 to May 24, 2017, assured that “what Lasso does is illegal”: “Obviously there is no ‘internal commotion’. She alone couldn’t buy enough assemblymen to save herself. In any case, it is the GREAT opportunity to get rid of Lasso, his Government and his rented assembly members, and recover the Homeland “.
in statements with C5NCorrea assured that “we (for the Citizen Revolution Movement) are the main political force and we are at our best moment. We will win and very well won those elections“.
In addition, he described Lasso’s argument in the context of the political trial as “poor defense” and that Ecuador was “stable, absolutely calm and on the way to development”, but the next day he dissolved the Assembly invoking “serious internal commotion”, a of the causes that Lasso uses to justify the implementation of “cross death”.
Rafael Correa
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The “cross death” is contemplated as an emergency measure that consists of the early termination of the period of office of the holders of the executive and legislative powers. This is how the Head of State has the power to dissolve the Assembly in case of “serious political crisis” and “internal commotion” in Ecuador, with a subsequent call for elections.
Source: Ambito
