Montesquieu said: “When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or in the same magisterial body, there can be no freedom because there is a fear that the same monarch or the Senate could make tyrannical laws, and execute them tyrannically”. The theory of the French philosopher was buried by the political and economic authorities in Ecuador. And even more, a centuries-old practice in the world.

The vice was born with the unfortunate constitutional norm, which allows the President of the Republic to dissolve the National Assembly. It is tempting that for reasons like serious political crisis and internal unrest, he can remove the legislature or he can do it with the president, for the health of the nation. However, where there is true democracy, only the people should have such power, because the people elected it. And there is one with the figure of revocation of the mandate that is written into the Constitution, and the government improperly applies the law that makes it useless, and no one has done anything to prevent it. In addition, the order contains a serious flaw: it does not say that the said crises and internal disturbances must be attributed to the state function accused of evil.

Thus, the head of state, after the intimidation he had used over the Parliament for more than a year and which he maintained until the last hour of the political process that was initiated against him failed, assuming that his dismissal was imminent, with the stroke of a pen he deleted his accusers, not allowing the public, whose judgment really matters, to find out who is right. He stabbed democracy and the Constitution because it was a political questioning, he ridiculed them. It is inadmissible for him to state the existence of a political crisis and internal unrest, because his constitutional judge exercised his authority legitimately. It is unusual that a charge such as the commission of a serious crime, any of those listed in the Magna Carta for the political process, can go unpunished. So far! and we will have to wait for court decisions.

Announcing his decree, he declared the public’s trust in the Assembly void. We are not canonizing her, but it is at least paradoxical that the most unpopular president in history said that. He accused her of rebellion. He wanted a submissive body that did not oppose him, his laws undermining workers’ rights and promoting scenarios that the opposition considered privatizing, an idea with which the national government, which ruled in favor of the minority, was aligned. What was the president’s response? To state that the members of the assembly are blackmailers, thieves, which they would not have expressed if their bill had been adopted. Later, due to political calculations, he withdrew the report he submitted to the prosecutor’s office against those members of parliament, which shows that his ethical outbursts should not be taken seriously. His desire to subdue the Assembly was shown when he managed to win over legislators from other movements and President Guadalupe Llori to his side, and through his agents in the Judicial Council he tried to prevent her from losing her position. Who attacked the institutionality of the state? He also succeeded with the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control. And he avoided giving accounts of suspicions against him, such as his investments in tax havens.

Moreover, the Constitutional Court had to determine the unconstitutionality of the dismissal of the deputies, but quickly rejected the requests that demanded it, renouncing its powers, opposing their declarations of internal unrest. Their commitment to the power that placed them there emerged when the Trujillato Council unconstitutionally removed their predecessors, in their alleged intention to dismantle authoritarianism, and what it did was continue the assault on the country’s institutions. Destruction after destruction!

And since government without weapons is not government, in order to put an end to the anti-democratic party, the military and police leadership shamelessly declared that the president acted in accordance with the Constitution, with the explanation that he respects the Constitution.

Now, with a favorable court, Mr. de Carondelet can unhindered revive his neoliberal project. A country without an Assembly means, among other things, that with the permanent absence of the President and Vice President of the Republic, there would be no one to temporarily replace them.

The people cannot live without democracy, the elites can, they always conspire against it, kill, imprison and discredit those who oppose their petty interests. There will be a homeland at the end. (OR)