The scenario of the second election round takes place against the background of the biggest multidimensional crisis in modern history. The situation is very cautious regarding the state of the political transition in 2021. The table has not been set but fallen and whoever comes will have to make a superhuman effort to fix it.

The worst is the criminal violence that has affected all areas of coexistence of citizens, endangering not only safety, but also the lives of decent and honest families who live off their hard work.

The Ecuadorian state has relinquished its monopoly on the use of force, a basic guarantee of legal order, to share it with international organized crime, along with its appendages of gangs that have taken over Ecuadorian prisons, which have successfully contaminated the very basis of society and its fundamental entities such as public forces and the judiciary, called to protect him.

The Montecristi Constitution, with its “progressive” bail approach, allowed bad judges, often from faraway places, to widely apply precautions and safeguards in favor of drug traffickers, criminals and corrupt people, who, despite being arrested overnight in flagrante, regain their freedom. This is how a nasty impunity for an unpunished crime spreads and spreads.

The institutionality inherited from Koreanism is eating away at a social body that is sick and decaying, almost in a state of agony. One of the biggest mistakes of the deposed government, which is disappearing without pain or glory, was that it did not act in time to dismantle that legacy of 21st century socialism, which was responsible for consuming what little decency and dignity the country had left. He managed to do this through a public consultation, which was ultimately carried out late and with irrelevant content.

One of the biggest mistakes of the deposed Government, which is expiring… is failure to act on time…

Meanwhile, that mammoth, the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control, CPCCS, is maneuvering by remote control in an attempt to re-co-opt the instances of public authority that have managed to restore some degree of independence. At a higher level, a correlate of the same tampering that allows impunity. Furthermore, this criticism also reaches the National Judicial Council, HNS, whose leader, who at times seems imprudent, knows very well where to direct the renewed process of politicization of the judiciary.

Complementing these failures is a weak economy that tends to hit the poorest hard. The promise of a strong reactivation after the pandemic remained one of many unrealized offers. The implementation of public works was very modest, due to the lack of budget and, at the same time, administrative management. The unemployment reduction indicator hides the reality of migrants leaving the country due to lack of opportunities.

The two electoral options suggest a return to the past or a commitment to change, something different from Koreanism other than the paralysis of a Government that has been ineffective in many areas. No doubt crushed, out of his good will, by a multidimensional crisis. (OR)