It’s not illegal, but in people’s eyes it looks like a confession. Although it has become commonplace, it is no less true what the great Julius Caesar said: “Caesar’s wife must not only be fair, but appear fair.” The directives of the Police Human Talents Directorate to withdraw judicial police investigative staff who provide their services in the Office of the Chief Prosecutor, in the midst of investigations into alleged corrupt practices of state-owned companies, are not illegal, but they are stupid and should have been canceled immediately so as not to be interpreted as a desire to investigations carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office are being sabotaged. The government did not understand this, and today, thanks to the court appeal, the Prosecutor’s Office will continue to rely on these experts. The words of the Minister of Internal Affairs that other qualified personnel will replace the current one are just a school justification, because the change actually interrupts ongoing investigations while the new personnel get to know what the current researchers already know. This attack on the independence of the Prosecutor’s Office took place after the Government requested the independence of the Prosecutor’s Office with consultation. This interference with justice caused the immediate censorship of other functions of the state: the National Court had already formulated it; and the Judicial Council, and the legislators in the Commission of the National Assembly that investigates corruption in state-owned companies were defeated. There is an international protest by Latin American prosecutors. All this could have been avoided by immediately canceling the transfer of the police officers in charge of the investigation.

The conflict between the institutions for the rotation of police officers in the prosecutor’s office brings the independence of functions back into discussion

It is the public authorities who sow unrest. The statements of the vice-president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) about the alleged attempt to commit fraud in the very facilities of the electoral function in Guayas, in front of their noses, arouse astonishment and contempt. It was enough to recount the votes where there were doubts.

In the meantime, the ship of state is sailing, and if the mistakes made are not reviewed, things will get worse.

The President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso, is under threat of impeachment in the National Assembly

The president’s biggest mistake — and I’ve been saying this for a long time in my articles; I did it in Vera in my own way – he preferred to act as a manager, accompanied by his family members from Banco Guayaquil, with no experience in managing government affairs, and who, under the Ecuador Libre memorandum, had the administration and, in particular, of state companies as if it’s about booty. All this group that surrounded the President of the Republic should have known what happened in the scandal that condemned the digital media La Posta; The group thought of holding a referendum and, with their own pollster, announced that they would win overwhelmingly with a yes; On February 5, everything was ready to celebrate not only the victory, but also to announce the future re-election, says a former colleague. Power obscures vision. (OR)