The political trial of the President of the Republic requires an undeniable constitutional foundation. It has such political, legal and moral significance that it affects the rule of law. Any suspicion, no matter how weak, will generate episodes of street confrontations that grip the country, with excesses like those of October and June, which the same terrorist of that time is already threatening to repeat, without the rule of law having done its part. power to overcome.punishment of anarchists.

A sharp criticism of the majority opinion of the Constitutional Court (US), which was formulated by the former president of the Inter-American Court, and the Constitutional Court itself, which declares a unique criminal, justifying and limiting conclusion on presidential embezzlement, which it refers to for its admissibility, with which they agree and prominent connoisseurs of constitutional science, could undermine trust in the political impartiality of the country’s highest court of justice.

You have to take sides

And if we try democracy…

Although a well-informed opinion of a lawyer legally helps the defense of the President of the Republic, once impeachment proceedings are initiated, and even without guilt, it will be of little use to the state to prove his innocence. Its fate would depend solely on the political vote, covered by the apparent constitutional legality of the 92 parliamentarians who take away power, which corresponds only to those who gave it. Faced with this possible possibility, the President, respecting the opinion of the Central Committee, expressed his decision that he would appear and present his defense before the Assembly. Especially before the country.

(…) The Assembly has the disapproval of 94% of Ecuadorians, it is deprived of popular representation…

After his speech was over, he could prevail on an eventual vote in the assembly, convinced that his innocence had penetrated the public, and immediately resign, issuing a decree of death on the cross—which he never relented—dissolving the Assembly by exercising its constitutional right to power. It would only be subject to the final judgment passed by the opinion of the citizens, considering that the Assembly has the disapproval of 94% of Ecuadorians, is deprived of popular representation and therefore does not have the necessary moral, political and constitutional suitability to continue to exist.

Courtesy of Jorge Edwards

The announced resistance of the Assembly to the respect of the cross of death, supported by the threat of anarchists with national mobilizations, sowing disorder in the country, exploiting the reasonable dissatisfaction of citizens and the corrupt intrigues of the bureaucracy regarding their basic needs, would only generate constitutional destabilization exploited by organized crime and drug trafficking. Due to the state of emergency, the intervention of the FF will be necessary. AA., as guarantors of order and respect for the Constitution.

Ecuadorians are asking the president for a solution to their problems, an immediate end to the constant confrontation between the Assembly and the President of the Republic, in order to prevent destabilization of the country and distrust in its institutions. If we cannot overcome this, we would eventually arrive at the predictable decline of democracy. (OR)