When the little-discussed power of consensus voting is imposed in the legislature to enforce what politicians call “party discipline,” the most unusual solutions are possible, even if they do not respect the established order, legal certainty, and uniformity. common sense.

It’s happened quite a few times already. It could happen again today, when the report of the special commission created to analyze the case that was always supposed to be in the Commission for Supervision and Political Control, whose leadership is not to the taste of the current parliamentary majority, was published: that the current president Guillermo Lasso is going to be impeached, although in order to achieve this, the Constitutional Court must give its support.

The National Assembly exerts pressure if there are reasons to bring the President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso, to a political trial under Article 129 of the Constitution

Ecuador’s country risk exceeds 1800 points and remains unstoppable due to threats to impeach the president and mobilizations

“Absurd”, “tome”, “coup”. Call it what you want, but those of us who have been engaged in political journalism for decades have seen how easily “donkeys fly” when the will behind honorable parliamentarians acts more with its calculator than with reason. With the liver more than with the brain. And a whole country in the middle, fed up from crisis to crisis, from messiah to messiah, but it didn’t learn to choose well in elections either.

(…) Those of us who have been engaged in political journalism for decades have easily seen how “donkeys fly”…

People like me live as journalists, on the page, the morning in which the majority agreed to declare Abdalá Bucaram unfit to rule, skipping the series of steps established to remove the president, we know that in the legislature anything is possible under the influence of the majority. And no, it’s not that I’m resigned to it, but I try to always maintain a grounded cable and a minimal capacity for surprise in scenarios very similar to those that the country has already experienced in that decade of multiple presidential failures, and in which it followed when correato reached enough popularity to proclaim and enforce what he believed to be “legitimate” even though it conflicted with legality.

How long can the process of impeachment of the president in Ecuador take?

No, to make sure there is no confusion, this column is not even remotely trying to defend the current government, which has enough defenders anyway. This column actually intends to be an incentive for democracy, for stability, for work. To escape, once and for all, from those quarrels and that inflated ego that exists everywhere, thinking about the land that we are leaving our centuries away from home. Yes, those who are engrossed in their video games because they don’t like the reality of the environment, even though they are very close to having to “play” in this restless national life.

And this reflection would not be complete if I did not say that President Lasso is in this political uncertainty as a result of his mistakes. Some very serious and who remained bare on February 5, when logically it seemed that at least part of his proposal, voted against him.

I thought, as a successful businessman in the economic sector, that in his management, professional management of public affairs would be guaranteed. But I see that neighborhood, intimate circles, and kindred, would seem the firmest of all governments, however fragile they may be. Let’s hope that today, in a fit of reason, the Assembly will side with the state. (OR)