Once notified, the CREO legislator has three days to respond to the complaint filed against him.
The Administrative Council of the Legislature (CAL) qualified the complaint filed by Assemblywoman Mónica Palacios Zambrano (UNES) against legislator Diego Ordóñez Guerrero (CREO), for verbal aggression and obvious misogyny, when issuing a comment on social networks in reference to the parliamentary.
On November 4, when responding to a tweet from the portal 4 Pelagatos, referring to the fact that “Mónica Palacios was the last hope of those who want to remove the president. He said he had the proof and went on to insult Lasso. The Super Bank of Panama denies it. And now that commission does not know what to put in its report “, Ordóñez posted:” Go from the tube to the seat and these clumsy tricks arise. “
The actions of Diego Ordóñez, says the complainant, have caused him serious damage or psychological suffering in the face of exposure to a danger or threat originated in the misogynistic and sexist behavior of the citizen against whom he presents the complaint, which affects the peaceful coexistence of the Assembly members and those who attend or work in the National Assembly, that is, inappropriate behaviors constituting serious and very serious offenses.
Palacios presented the request to the CAL against Ordóñez for having incurred in a serious or very serious offense typified in paragraph 1 of article 170 of the Organic Law of the Legislative Function, related to verbal aggression to an assembly member inside or outside the precinct parliamentary.
That parliamentary body must carry out an investigation in which it knows the version of the legislator who is considered affected and the accused, then implement a sanction.
Palacios in his complaint asks that Diego Ordóñez, for his inappropriate behavior and way of acting, evidently misogyny and sexist, be sanctioned with the maximum penalty that the disciplinary order allows, that he be ordered to offer a public apology and be ordered to not to repeat in the future events such as those that motivate this complaint in respect of the majesty of the Legislative Branch.
In the letter, Palacios describes that through various media, on the occasion of the international scandal unleashed by the so-called Pandora Papers, he preceded an investigation and delivery of documents in the National Assembly, as well as interviews, which led to various reactions and some were attacks on his honor and dignity in the written media and social networks.
That on November 4, 2021, Diego Ordóñez, on his Twitter account, spoke about him. What is published does not correspond to something tolerable in a democratic society, he assures.
Regarding said comment, the file indicates, it cannot be expressed in any other way than it exudes hatred, political revenge, reflects a total misogyny, a brutal machismo, with a total disrespect for gender, tried to offend her as a woman, and shows some marked eagerness to establish that citizen in a pseudo-moralist referent being.
But it also includes in the letter that Diego Ordóñez, representative of Pichincha, on November 5 at the session of the Economic Regime Commission requested a public apology from the UNES bloc. Then the legislator withdrew the comment from the social network.
Said way of acting, according to Palacios, disrespects the duties as a legislator, established in paragraph 12 of article 162 of the Organic Law of the Legislative Function, and is subject to the provisions of articles 170.1 and 171.4 of the LOFL, and 5.1 and 6.4 of the regulations for the processing of administrative offenses that assembly members may incur and their sanction.
According to the procedure, once the complaint has been qualified, the assembly member against whom it has been directed will be notified so that he can respond within three days, who may request to be heard before the CAL. The applicant will also participate in the session. With the answer, it will issue a resolution in which it will conclude if the fault has been incurred and will impose a sanction. There is no deadline for the resolution to be presented. (I)
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