The four delegates from the Unión por la Esperanza caucus and one from the Pachakutik movement blocked the approval of the report for the first debate of the Repetition Law project presented by the State Attorney, Íñigo Salvador.
The purpose of the initiative presented in July 2021 is to implement a regulatory framework that allows exercising the right of repetition against those who caused economic damage to the State in the exercise of public office.
The Attorney General’s Office pushes an Organic Law of Repetition with which it seeks to be “successful” in recovering money paid by the State
The legislators of the correísta bench José Agualsaca, Sofía Espín, Jhajaira Urresta and Fausto Jarrín consigned a vote against the approval of the report. Jarrín, when explaining his vote against, commented: “Although it is true that mechanisms are required to exercise the state and administrative power of repetition, in my capacity as a lawyer, to approve a clearly unconstitutional law as a result of the employee of the transnationals who acquiesces to the lawsuits against Ecuador is not in my moral or ethical possibilities”.
Assembly members Johanna Moreira, Dalton Bacigalupo and Alejandro Jaramillo (ID), José Chimbo and Vicente Ludeña, alternate of Dina Farinango (Pachakutik), voted in favor of the report.
Assemblyman Ricardo Vanegas, from Pachakutik, when abstaining in the vote, pointed out that after listening to the intervention of Assemblyman Fausto Jarrín (UNES), a concern arose in him, for which, “indeed, we must prosecute those who have caused damage to the State, but if procedures are being violated for this persecution, I cannot agree. I will abstain”.
The State Attorney’s Office issued a statement in which it warned of a boycott by UNES assembly members, “who are not interested in recovering State resources and defend their leaders to the hilt, who caused the country to pay substantial resources for arbitrary decisions against the Constitution and the law,” the document states.
He urges the assembly members who voted against the project to reconsider their decision, which will allow the country to have a quick and effective legal instrument to restore its public resources to the State.
The president of the Commission, Alejandro Jaramillo, announced that the legislator Ricardo Vanegas (PK) raised the reconsideration of the vote for the next session that could be on Monday or Tuesday.
What the law seeks, added Jaramillo, is to recover the resources that the Ecuadorian State has had to pay for damages caused to private individuals for which the country has been sentenced to pay large amounts of money.
The legislator called on the attorney Íñigo Salvador to open spaces for dialogue with all the assembly members of the Justice table, to achieve a text in accordance with current regulations and that there are no contradictions with the Comprehensive Criminal Organic Code and the General Organic Code of Processes.
Jaramillo said that the project can be improved and clarified that even if the report has not been approved, it will be known by the plenary session of the Assembly so that it can determine whether to continue its process. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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