President Guillermo Lasso had no choice but to resort to crucifixion. He could not raise his neck to have the sharp knife of 96 votes cut his throat. The predecessor of the election of the President of the Assembly was a presentation of his fate. It would be foolish to allow someone to be censored with the best constitutional weapon at hand. The event could be predicted and we observers wondered when it would be judged. On the same day, the 17th, before the start of the working day, the decree was already in force and public force was deployed to prevent further demonstrations and excesses.

The president takes over the constitutional dictatorship. It does not frighten those who have read the history of Rome. In the republic, he existed as a magistrate to whom the Senate turned in case of serious internal crises, such as the plague, civil wars or when a foreign invasion had to be faced. The dictator got all the powers and applied them to solve the problem. After it was resolved, it returned the powers to the Senate. Of course, there were also violent dictators like Lucius Cornelius Sulla, but he also retired to his home in Campania after a while.

President Laso can use the powers he has taken to, for example, solve the essential problem of the lack of jobs, by updating the Labor Law, by prior agreement between workers and employers. Stand strong against drug lords who hire assassins to kill their enemies or those they hate. You can improve your successful health campaign by improving hospitals, facilitating the purchase and delivery of medicines to the poorest, and paying your debts with Solca and the Charity Administration. It must offer better education at all levels, including university. It will benefit her to complete and modernize the weapons of the public force, which was her main support in this crisis, and she deserves it.

Few and concentrated tasks, well done, fair and efficient. Thus, he will justify his dictatorship and succeed in the demanding exam. Remember Don Clemente Yerovia.

A few words about the candidates for the parliamentary elections. This is the worst qualified institution for a job poorly done, because it conspired all day against the president elected by the people. Many of its members are not worthy to be called “honorable”. I will not repeat the series of accusations about his unworthiness. However, some already claim that they are again candidates for the Assembly. It would be a serious contradiction bordering on stupidity to allow them the audacity to offer themselves, because they will continue to do what they know: opposition, negativity, hatred, ignorance and incompetence.

The problem is that there is no law that applies to any of these issues because crucifixion is an unprecedented procedure in our history and the framers of the Montecristi Constitution never imagined that this issue would cross their minds. And what is even more dangerous is that the people have no brains, they allow themselves to be deceived by empty offers. It was the peak of presidentialism, the culmination of his disastrous work. Can a dictator do anything? (OR)