Until 4:00 p.m. on January 23, the legislators appointed by the plenary session of the National Assembly to investigate alleged acts of corruption in public companies did not receive notification from the Parliament’s general secretariat in order to start their work.
The first meeting of the commission, which could take place this week, will be to designate the internal authorities and then establish a work plan and schedule. The seven members of the occasional table for Truth, Justice and the Fight against Corruption have 30 days to present a report for the full knowledge.
Who are the assembly members who will investigate the alleged corruption in public companies that would splash the government of Guillermo Lasso?
Esteban Torres, who coordinates the Social Christian bench in Parliament He stressed that the new audios related to the wave of corruption in the government of Guillermo Lasso are compromising and that they must be added to the investigations carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office.
In addition, he said that there are contradictions of the president regarding Hernán Luque, his delegate to the board of the Public Companies Coordinating Company (EMCO), first he pointed out that the former official left of his own free will, and then in a television interview he changed version and says he was removed from office. When the truth is that no one is very clumsy to take charge of $14 billion in public companies and neither is very clumsy to work in a very high management position in a bank.
In just one month, Guillermo Lasso went from not knowing the reason for Hernán Luque’s departure to saying that it was due to mistrust
Luque is related to an alleged corruption plot for the awarding of contracts in public companies in exchange for bribes, which would involve a brother-in-law of Lasso, Danilo Carrera; Ítalo Cedeño, former manager of Petroecuador; and to private individuals, such as Leonardo Cortázar, Rubén Chérrez and others.
Torres indicated that the specialized commission should already have its first meeting, and present its work plan and accept what the justice commission initially did and make the truth known.
The PSC legislator said that there is absolutely no attempt to destabilize the government as a result of an oversight task that is the responsibility of the Assembly; and furthermore, any conclusion that the occasional commission may reach is no longer a mere recommendation to the plenary, and that does not mean destabilization or dismissal of anyone. It is premature to make a statement that the president is intended to be removed.
The official legislator, Juan Fernando Flores, He maintained that apparently the interest in investigating the alleged acts of corruption in public companies remained in a motion, because until now the members of that table have not been summoned, much less has it been seen as quickly as in other cases.
He questioned that the formation of the specialized investigative commission does not contemplate all the legislative benches, since the Pachakutik bench itself expressed that it does not have its representative, but those who respond to the interests of correísmo.
Flores stated that he hopes that this investigation will not comply with the narrative made by the legislator, Luis Almeida, that if the president, Guillermo Lasso, has to fall, let him fall. He warned that the intentions of the assembly members of the correista bench is to try to take this investigation to the ultimate consequences “trying to violate the Constitution again, saying that article 130 number 2 of the Constitution can be activated, when the law is clear that that attempt is only once”.
Patricia Sánchez, coordinator of the Pachakutik bench, He commented that the statements of the president on national television are a sign of his government’s weakness, since he maintains a story that contradicts himself.
He clarified that in the formation of the commission that will investigate the Pachakutik case, it does not have its delegate. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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