Because that is what we will choose, temporarily, on the eve of the next elections, which will be less than a year and a half away. The current one is only a harbinger of what’s to come, and the winner will most likely enter a new election game where they will be tempted to use their newfound power to win.

The elected, now, if he is later a candidate, will have to choose whether to take serious, state or populist measures. Both candidates already gave us a signal when they announced that they would use the cash reserve.

A multidimensional crisis

This is an urgent moment for the adoption of genuine state measures, including reform or, rather, constitutional change. This death on the cross and the election of a temporary representative is proof that we live in an imitation of democracy, with a continuous spectacle of conflict between the powers of the state: the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control wants to try the Attorney General, and the Constitutional Court (US) itself, for years; Let’s hope CC cuts this Gordian knot in one fell swoop and fires the members responsible for this contempt; Next, we have the bizarre Judicial Council, which pretends to act as if it were the Supreme Court. The reason, or rather the reason for this anarchy, is the Constitution that governs us, which was drawn up for us by the Spanish political group Podemos, sent by Commander Chávez from Venezuela. What a humiliation!

Montecristi’s constitution is a source of chaos; She is the one who created this Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control. This very Constitution allows the judge from the most distant canton to block any decision of the public administration and any other function.

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This cannot continue. It is this Constitution that has led us to anarchy and it must be repealed.

The fact that representatives are elected in the first round of presidential elections also contributes to this instability, which leads to the fact that we have a fragmented National Assembly, which makes governance almost impossible. It was this fragmentation that led President Guillermo Lasso to dissolve the National Assembly because it had only a dozen deputies elected by his party. Therefore, every president must either surrender to the opposition majority or wage a daily struggle against it.

To believe that the Constitution can be reformed by overcoming self-created blockages is wishful thinking. That is why several citizens support Dr. Simón Espinosa’s thesis on the repeal of this 2008 constitution by plebiscite; If this constitution is accepted in the plebiscite, it can be repealed in the same way.

If this Constitution were to be repealed, the previous one, the one from 1998, would remain in force, as the people wanted. Therefore, CPCCS, the current protective resources, would cease to exist. The people would be consulted so that the Congress would be bicameral, and the legislators would be elected in the second round. That would have to be decided by the transition for his announced pre-election consultations. (OR)