In this challenge to the authority of the Constitutional Court by the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (CCCCS), the time has come for the latter to be or not to be: either dismiss the President of the Council and the other councilors who joined the challenge, by action or omission, or become the king of ridicule and the state of anarchy in which we live is sanctified.

It is evident that the President of the Council is in the role of fulfilling the instructions of the political group that elected him – despite the law prohibiting it – in the first place. His first goal was to overturn the Attorney General; When that failed, he continued to fulfill his second order and initiated proceedings against the Constitutional Court seeking the establishment of a supervisory body to investigate the origins of the establishment of the Constitutional Court; To do this, he obtained the judge of Montecristi to order the creation of this supervision; Supported by the judge’s decision, he announced that he was immediately withdrawing from the formation of the supervisory body.

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In doing so, he completed the legal violation by ignoring the interpretative judgment of May 2019, which protected the actions of the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control chaired by Julio César Trujillo. The Constitutional Court, by giving the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control a deadline of 72 hours to submit a detailed report on its actions, may have opened up space for it to delay the proceedings. I think the Court should have dismissed those responsible based on public evidence.

It is also evident that the current president of the CPCCS did not get to his position for any other reason than faithful adherence to the instructions he receives from his political group; This is how he acted in the case of the process against the newspaper EL UNIVERSO; He did it in an attack on the Attorney General, and he will do it in the future. He arrived publicly sponsored by his political group in defiance of the law that forbids it; The first-instance judge of the Electoral Court did not accept the complaint, and a second-instance decision is awaited, which, we hope, will be based on the law, if the law still has something to do in these matters. Victor Hugo said “that the law cannot stand, like the Colossus of Rhodes, with its feet on two banks.” This violation of the law was committed openly, shamelessly, in full view and with the patience of the State Electoral Council.

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It is impossible to save right, right and justice while Montecristi’s constitution is in force. This created the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control, whose main goal was that the Presidency of the Republic, which elects its members, can appoint control bodies. At that time, it was determined at the referendum that the election would be by popular vote, and we are already seeing the results.

The solution to remove this general anarchy is to abolish the Montecristi Constitution. As it was approved by referendum, it can be repealed in the same way by a public vote, and the previous one, the one from 1998, would remain in force, as claimed by Dr. Simón Espinosa. (OR)