Until the world can stop its wars, none of the most terrible massacres that shame it, and until our country can find the means: some to pay annual salaries, and others to cover the wells of oil tankers and continue to survive without their production, and considering that that the President of the Republic has undertaken to hold a national consultation on legal reforms, including constitutional ones, which he must do immediately because time is short, I believe that, even if we get tired, we must return to dealing with this issue. the issue of reforming our legislation.

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Much has been said about constitutional reforms: some of us believe that the current Constitution should be repealed by plebiscite and replaced by the immediate predecessor; others propose convening a constitutional assembly; and there are those who would like this or that change through the usual procedures; In any case… However, considering the multitude of proposed solutions, I believe that there is one that would largely allow to end the chaos in which the country lives in a permanent confrontation between state powers.

The country already experienced this in the return to democracy in 1977-78, when congressional representatives were elected simultaneously with the second round of presidential elections, also a fabrication from the same years.

It remained and will be the election of the president by a majority vote of half plus one, moreover, it has been adopted by many countries in the surrounding area, but the election of representatives in the second round has not.

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Party interests prevailed and they managed to hold the election of deputies with the first round and thus get mandates in the National Assembly, even if they were minority ones, and enter into negotiations with the presidential candidates placed in the second round and get participation in the government.

The election of deputies in the second round will allow the president-elect to have an important parliamentary block and not be subject to daily negotiations to obtain support for his legislative proposals and acts of his government, as we have witnessed in recent years. . Mr. Guillermo Lasso triumphed in the second round with more than 50% of the vote, but his party’s candidates for the National Assembly won less than 10% of the seats (12 out of 137); Mr. Noboa got 14. So it is simply impossible to rule.

Such a change can be achieved, or attempted, only through public consultation, which is always risky, of course. A newly elected president can try with serious prospects of success.

Should this public consultation be successful, it could be in place for the next election; The National Assembly would cease to be a patchwork quilt, and the elected president would have a significant number of representatives from his party; The opposition would be strong, which is healthy, and there would also be a moderate number of representatives from parties with popular roots. (OR)