92 votes in favor are needed to remove President Guillermo Lasso. With 88 votes, it was decided to bring the impeachment proceedings to the plenary session of the Assembly, because there was no report approved by the Supervisory Committee. Opponents point out that 4 votes were missing and, assuming that they are the majority, with the appointment of the powers of the Assembly, Supervisory and Standing Committees, they assume that they could get them.

Outside the opposition, it is pointed out that if 92 do not vote for the prosecutor’s office, it will be difficult to dismiss them.

Lasso is not responsible for embezzlement, other political sins, mistakes and omissions committed by him, but votes can ignore and distort the legal interpretation and truth of the facts, unless there is a control of execution by the Constitutional Court, on his decision that the political trial is only for embezzlement. The constitutional norm indicating that there is no requirement for a valid criminal sentence to vote on the dismissal, does not mean that someone can be convicted in the Assembly for embezzlement, just because there are votes for it.

Death by the cross, a constitutional mechanism designed “not to be used”

Nothing is certain until it is given and no one can guarantee who the end user(s) will be.

Voting experiences: On November 16, 1966, the Constituent Assembly was supposed to meet, which was held that year. The majority of the center left gathered for Raúl Clemente Huerta to be the President of the Republic; the right center torpedoed it, dropping the name of Otto Arosemen Gómez, who won. He was questioned by his cousin, Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, who was a member of the assembly. On August 10, 1980, the opposition to Jaime Roldós, led by Assad Bucaram and León Febres-Corder, proposed the name of Carlos Julio as president of the National Chamber of Deputies – then the legislative and political supervisory body -. Otto, also a lawmaker, did not question his cousin but abstained from voting. The President of the Chamber was won by Raúl Baca.

In Chile, since the uprising in October 2019, to put an end to the legal and economic regime resulting from the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, which began on September 11, 1973, which after a plebiscite on October 5, 1988 allowed the return of civilians to power, it was condition for it to take place, all processes and votes had left-oriented results, the last of which was the election of the charismatic leader – 36-year-old – Gabrijelo Borić to the Presidency of the Republic, in December 2021. Then the intention of the majority of Chileans reversed. The new Constitution, inspired by the left, was rejected by around 62% of voters in September 2022. A new constituent body, the Constitutional Council, was proposed, its integration was voted on May 8, 2023, the Republican Party of José Antonio Casta, from the extreme right, received more than 35% of the vote, the right reached 56.5% of the vote. votes. Borić’s left-wing coalition received only 17 councilors, less than the 21 that would have allowed him the right of veto in the Magna Carta process.

Nothing is certain until it is given and no one can guarantee who the end user(s) will be. (OR)