Here we are, barely thirty days from the elections for the President and Vice-President of the Republic and for members of parliament, after a little more than two years since the last elections. Things accelerated, the National Assembly decided to impeach the president, and days before the end of the impeachment process, he voted for or against his dismissal, used his constitutional authority and dissolved the National Assembly, thus serving only a little more than half of the presidential mandate.

Thus, on August 20, we will know the distribution of forces in the new convocation of the National Assembly. As for the election of the president and vice president, it seems that there will be a second round. There is also the question of whether the parliamentary majority – which will probably be largely the same as the dissolved National Assembly – will decide to continue the trial in the country in which it was found, and, in this case, whether they have enough votes for the possible removal of the president in order to disqualify him for election; with which there would be a succession of vice presidents for the short remaining time. What follows is also conditioned; the party which is assumed to have a majority in the Assembly has announced that it will seek the election of the Constituent Assembly. This will depend on whether he triumphs in the second round, whether he has a solid majority and agreements with other legislative forces.

It is worth asking whether the death on the cross was beneficial to the earth and to him who invoked it. For what we live in, I would say no. When the president dissolved the National Assembly, I wrote an article that the medicine can be worse than the disease. We find a president who has shortened his mandate, who is left in the hands of his opponents, who can depose him; a choice that favors those who judge it; in which the rest of the political forces are disorganized because most exist only for the adventure of the election.

In parliamentary democracies, when parliament is dissolved, general elections are held; The exception is France, where since the Fifth Republic, with De Gaulle, in 1958, the president of the republic can dissolve the parliament, and he remains president. Here in Montecristi’s Constitution, a hybrid, a two-headed monster, is created, which makes controllability impossible.

The president has the task of handing over his government in the most organized way possible, without causing anarchy and avoiding what usually happens at the end of governments, when the distribution of spoils begins, corruption. According to the anecdotal telling of the Minister of the Interior, an unknown person, in his own ministerial office, was offered a bribe of several million for the contract on bulletproof vests; it didn’t make him stop immediately. The President should stop it and announce that no new contracts will be awarded, only the execution and maintenance of the existing ones will continue. In any case, the new government will cancel and control everything new. (OR)