The Constitutional Court found that the Free Trade Agreement between Ecuador and China requires legislative consent before it can be ratified by the President of the Republic and ordered the publication of the full text of the agreement in the Official Gazette so that within ten days from the said publication every citizen intervenes defending or disputing its partial or complete constitutionality.
The post was filled this Monday, August 28. The decision of the Constitutional Court and the contract were entered in the register in Constitutional Edition No. 261.
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The Court’s statement was issued on August 9, the same day that presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was killed, and then the body issued a statement denying this fact. The verdict went unnoticed.
“At this first moment of constitutional control before the ratification of international treaties, it is up to the Constitutional Court to determine whether legislative approval is required for the ratification of the Treaty.” And “as it concerns the cases provided for in Article 419 (of the Constitution), numbers 3 and 6, it needs legislative approval before it is ratified by the President of the Republic”, according to the analysis carried out in the Constitutional Court.
“In the history of Ecuador, there is no trade agreement that was rejected by the Assembly. We expect the same with the agreement with China’
The verdict was confirmed by the plenary session of the Constitutional Court with five votes for constitutional judges Karla Andrada Quevedo, Enrique Herrería Bonnet, Teresa Nuques Martínez, Richard Ortiz Ortiz and Daniela Salazar Marín, at the session on Wednesday, August 9, 2023., “without counting on the presence Alejandre Cárdenas Reyes, Carmen Corral Ponce, Jhoela Escudera Soliz and Alíja Lozada Prada, for the use of vacation permits.”
So the judges decided:
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