In the last few months, before the eyes and patience of everyone, a new interference in the judiciary was forged. The competition of judges for the National Court, the highest judicial body of our country, is marked by major irregularities. You didn’t

Those are guesses. The international monitoring mission published a report citing a number of troubling anomalies, including the fact that the identity of its participants was not made public from the start and that one of its phases, specifically the “trust test”, was being repeated. without a convincing reason and without publishing the original results. Among the members of this observatory are Diego García Sayán and Jaime Arellano, two renowned international lawyers of impeccable reputation.

Justice or impunity

Article 53 of the Basic Code of Judicial Function states: “If any significant irregularity is noticed in the different stages of the tender procedure, which affects it as an irreparable nullity, the procedure will be repeated, in whole or in part, by decision.” of the person who leads it. appropriate tender.” This is exactly the case and what needs to be done. However, despite this, the Judicial Council, the body in charge of this competition, and thus the call to fulfill this mandate of the law, has ignored the concerned voices both nationally and internationally, stubbornly to continue with this flawed process at all costs.

It is not difficult to deduce what dark interests are driving the continuation of this new attack on our justice system. At dawn yesterday, the Attorney General’s Office carried out a large-scale operation in which as many as 75 homes in seven provinces were searched in the midst of an investigation into drug trafficking and organized crime. Among those detained is none other than Wilman Terán, the current president of the Judicial Council. But it reveals even more who came to his defense. In fact, from morning to afternoon, the wall of a certain fugitive from justice was filled with attacks on the chief state attorney, accusing her of wanting to interfere with judicial competition with this operation. Any doubt that Correismo is behind the tender irregularities has been buried. A fish dies through its own mouth.

Lawyers vs. shades

The complicit silence of our political class on this issue has been deafening. Is this the price they want us Ecuadorians to pay for the misnamed “administration”? Will they sell our justice for thirty pieces of silver? Citizens cannot sit idly by. We Ecuadorians must understand that the problems with our justice system are not distant, abstract problems that only affect “others”, but are one of the main reasons why we are where we are. The flaws in our justice system allow the mafia and the corrupt to do their thing with complete impunity. Will we continue to allow this? (OR)