The country of Ecuador produces water in many parts. It is full of culverts and blocked drainage channels that retain all the rot that reaches them due to poor design, and above all due to poor management by the users and owners. The illusion that after the closure of the Assembly we will live in a period of moderate rationality has disappeared thanks to the actions of the brilliant members of the Participation Council, the National Court of Justice, the National Electoral Council (CNE) and the Judicial Council. There were so many crimes and so huge that they managed to overshadow the Government, and the expected election campaign was relegated to memes and emoticons of little creativity (techno-cumbiera aesthetics, on the one hand, and from the world of Barbie, on the other). the other side).

Who knows where the HNS passed the law that regulates it and the endless regulations of the previous harvests and of its own in order to decide to repeat the elections for parliamentarians abroad. With this, he is trying to solve his own mistake of not taking appropriate measures for the use of the telematic modality for voting by residents abroad for the first time. They always did it personally (even during the pandemic), but now, without explanation, they decided to experiment with a company that, according to experts, did not meet the minimum requirements for it. Whether due to incompetence and clumsiness or, as many claim, due to some attempt to change the result of the general elections, this will affect the relationship between the majority and the minority in the Assembly and call into question the entire process.

We choose the same ones again or, who knows, if not even worse than the ones we replaced…

For its part, the conflict that was taking place in the form of a larva between the Judicial Council and the National Court of Justice left that state and became a public spectacle. Just when it seemed that the President’s antics had bottomed out, it turned out that it could sink further when, through surprising mathematics (arbitrariness, ignorance, or a mixture of both?), they turned two into an absolute majority of five and left an inescapable and unbearable odor of esprit de corps. in the environment. As if something was missing, the Participation Council took the opportunity to jump into the ring and drive a wedge against the Attorney General who needs to get out of the way of consecrating the corrupt. In short, the mess left by the decisions of cantonal judges who let criminals of all kinds go free: ordinary, corporate, white-collar and, of course, political.

It is no secret to anyone that behind each of these events there are flesh and blood responsible, concrete people, names and surnames with pompous titles in front of them. But if we decided to dig a little into the sewers, we could be convinced of the greater responsibility that falls on us individually and socially. Without further ado, we could look back at the careless and irresponsible way in which we squandered the opportunity we had on August 20. We have re-elected the same or, who knows if not worse than those we enthusiastically fired when political death cut their paths. Our voice revived them, revives them at every moment and will continue to revive them so that we may continue to live in chaos. (OR)