In three days, the Ethics Committee will meet to vote on the report and it will be known if the members of the table accept or deny the recommendation for dismissal.
The members of the Ethics Committee of the National Assembly have been analyzing from this 23rd November the report presented by its president, Segundo Chimbo (PK), which recommends the removal of Ecknner Recalde (formerly ID) as assemblyman for Pichincha, for having incurred in the express prohibition of receiving contributions and contributions by the work team under their charge.
Recalde was denounced by the legislator of the Democratic Left Johanna Moreira, although the evidence on the events that occurred in his office was received by his colleague and coordinator of the bench, Alejandro Jaramillo.
Ethics Committee closes the trial phase in the investigation against Ecknner Recalde, accused of collecting tithes
As established in the investigation, Recalde received financial contributions from his work team to build a headquarters for the Democratic Left party in southern Quito and to cover campaign expenses.
This action is prohibited, as established in article 163, numeral 4 of the Organic Law of the Legislative Function, where it is said that they will not be able to “receive allowances or other income from public funds other than those corresponding to their function as assembly members; which will include the receipt of alleged rights, commissions, fees, contributions, contributions, income, interest, remuneration or gratuities not due by the work team under their charge […]”.
Whoever violates any of these prohibitions will lose the quality of assembly member.
In the report, the chairman of the Committee recommends the removal of the assembly member, who should be imputed political responsibility for the acts he has carried out and for whose conduct it has been “sufficiently justified” that the aforementioned legal prohibition has been violated.
The document indicates that in the investigation process it has been “evidenced”, according to the testimonies received, that there is a related conduct between assembly members who, with an apparent agreement or pact and in a concerted manner, hire family members among themselves, evading the prohibition of nepotism established in article 159, third paragraph of the Organic Law of the Legislative Function, as it would be shown in the hiring of Carmen Calderón, Recalde’s sister-in-law, who was on the payroll of Amparo Guanoluisa’s office, as evidenced practiced in the Committee, plus the testimonies of Isabel Mayanquer and Francisco Ortuño (former collaborators of Assemblyman Recalde).
Likewise, it is evidenced, according to official documents of the General Coordination of Human Talent, that in the payroll of Recalde’s office there is Viviana Guanoluisa, sister of the legislator.
This situation and similar behaviors call the attention of the Committee and, therefore, it recommends to the Legislative Administration Council and the General Coordination of Human Talent of the Assembly an investigation in order to take the necessary corrections so that this does not happen. . (I)
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