I am referring to the impeachment trial in the National Assembly against President Guillermo Lasso, without any support to charge him with the crime of embezzlement.

To the already accumulated absurdity, the “pre-announced” votes of the representatives for the opponents, is added as an alleged support the draft text of evidence of criminal liability, from the time before Las, for what happened in Flopec, related to the contract with Tankeri Amazonas, which would have been prepared within Office of the Chief State Comptroller, never issued abroad, never sent to the State Prosecutor’s Office or any entity in the public sector. Death on the cross, from the Assembly, is an alternative proposal of former President Correa.

National emergency situations are left behind, because the intention of the political opposition is to overthrow the president and that is the dominant issue.

First, it has to deal with organized crime, violence and delinquency in a coordinated manner from all areas of power, but that too well. It is definitely inadmissible for constitutional lawsuits to annul what was done and/or sanctioned within the framework of the criminal justice system and what was done by the state attorney’s office, as well as what was done by the prosecuting authorities, but in the sense of what corresponds to the competent prosecutor and criminal to the judge must be a reference to the criminal offense and/or evidence being investigated or sought, and not vagueness or mention of offenses or investigations other than those published in the media.

On flagrante delicto, the Prosecutor’s Office states: “Flagrant crime is associated with immediacy; that is, it is considered as such up to 24 hours after it was committed. In addition, it should be noted that there is a person deprived of liberty, that items such as weapons, tools resulting from a criminal offense and traces or documents related to a criminal offense have been found. A citizen is in flagrante delicto when he commits a criminal offense in the presence of one or more persons or when it is discovered immediately (up to 24 hours) after its alleged commission. This is determined by Article 527 of the Comprehensive Criminal Code on Organic Crimes, COIP. Members of the State Police are authorized to arrest a person caught in the act of committing a crime or, immediately after committing it, to bring him or her under the order of the competent judge, according to Article 528 of the COIP. In the same way, any person can make an arrest in flagrante delicto, but must immediately hand over the arrested person to the police, who, with an appropriate police report, will transfer him to the Department for flagrante delicto.“.

I understand the statements of the Minister of Economy and Finance that actions, means, obstacles in general will have to be submitted, in order not to pay what is ordered by the fines. But, if it is true that values ​​are owed, not only can it be deducted, but payment contracts must be promoted and not cheated on those entitled to collect. The image of public entities that pay poorly generates among suppliers and contractors the practice of overpricing and other forms of corruption, thinking that only those who have a sponsor are baptized. (OR)