The good news is that the National Assembly of tithes, shackles and pastries has been dissolved and the handful of crooks who ran it have gone home. Saquicela tried to criticize the death cross, but the Constitutional Court immediately silenced him with its positive opinion.

President Guillermo Lasso, who was running out of room to maneuver and had an increasingly reduced space, played the only card he had in his hand. As he admitted in statements to El País in Spain: “I prefer six months in purgatory to two years in hell.”

reestablishing mediocrity

Not only was the vote in the Assembly extremely close, but the correísmo also moved other chips on the board, anticipating checkmate even if Plan A failed. The appointment of a lawyer linked to the EL UNIVERSO case as president of the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (CCCCS), an organization that will have to elect new control bodies, including a prosecutor and a controller, is an unequivocal sign of such a siege.

The application, for the first time in fifteen years, of a hybrid figure between parliamentarism and presidentialism, designed by the socialism of the 21st century in order to keep the herd of parliamentarians in its flock, hit the table with the consequent rearrangement of the figures that they will give promptly and uncertainly.

Correísmo satisfied his desire to lead the country to early elections. His strategy is to achieve Carondelet with an interim president, which will last fifteen months, and regain control of the Assembly for a pincer operation that allows the triumphant return of their leader. Under the guideline of forgetting without forgiveness, because there was never an act of mea culpa on his part for so much abuse, anger and corruption.

(…) Correísmo moved the other pieces on the board, anticipating checkmate even if plan A fails.

Meanwhile, President Lasso has begun the countdown to his constitutional relief until the end of the year. The Washington Post assured that he will not seek re-election and that he will nominate another candidate from his environment, where there is also not much choice. Maybe Cucalón or Arosemena.

At the same time, presidential candidates are multiplying in droves, reproducing the same dispersion of 2021 and which tends to favor UNES as a triumphant movement in the February elections and with a better political organization at the national level. Despite that, a new match with an open result is coming up.

The news is that the general election will bring with it a public consultation on the Yasuní/ITT case. Truth be told, it is completely unexpected that the majority of the Constitutional Court, clearly committed to environmental activism, at such a complicated and critical moment considered the relevance of raising an issue of this nature that has been on the shelf for a decade. (throwing it into the populist debate). Which could mean in a year the definitive closure of Petroecuador’s block 43 which produces 50,000 barrels of crude oil per day, with a loss of revenue of 1,200 million dollars a year and another similar amount intended to remove the last screw from the field. With less than 0.01% of the nature park occupied by its facilities. Another bullying. (OR)