The plenary session of the National Assembly turned into chaos on February 24. Shouts, appeals, threats and a blackout in the session hall was the tone of session 766, where the UNES, PSC and a sector of Pachakutik sought to set up a commission and submit the head of the legislature, Guadalupe Llori, to an evaluation. .
The session was installed after 2:00 p.m. and immediately it was reported that there were five requests to change the agenda, including the one presented by the legislator Fausto Jarrín (UNES), which proposes the inclusion of a resolution of the plenary session of the National Assembly to verification of compliance with the functions of the CAL. That petition was blocked because four requests to modify the agenda had previously been submitted by legislators Lucía Placencia (ID), Rafael Lucero (Pachakutik), Jorge Pinto (CREO) and Ricardo Vanegas (Pachakutik), and according to the article 129 of the Organic Law of the Legislative Function can only deal with up to three requests for modification per session.
After the installation of the session and before the reading of the report for the first debate of the bill that regulates the legitimate use of force, chaos ensued after the PSC legislator Esteban Torres requested a point of order, but President Guadalupe Llori blocked it, and that exacerbated the spirits of the Correísta sector, the Social Christian and a Pachakutik group.
According to Torres, there are serious questions that were raised before the installation of the session regarding the use of changes to the agenda to avoid dealing with a change of the day that seeks to evaluate the conduct of the CAL, and make a decision as established Article 18 of the Organic Law of the Legislative Function.
The inconsistencies, according to the PSC representative, are that the three requests for changes to the agenda were presented with differences of minutes, the session at 2:00 p.m. was hardly called, and that they had repeated signatures and that these would have been presented later.
But by not giving way to the point of order, Torres raised the appeal of the presidency and the shouts in the plenary increased in the correismo wing and in the PSC, while Llori called for calm and ordered that the reading of the report continue. of the bill, but could not with the insistent cries of “appeal”, “appeal”. For this reason, he suspended the session and with the custody of the legislative escort and surrounded by the assembly members of the ruling party and others from Pachakutik, he left the room and entrenched himself in the presidency.
The first vice president, Virgilio Saquicela (BAN); the second vice president, Yeseña Guamaní (ID); the entire UNES bloc, some from the Democratic Left, from the PSC and also the rebel wing of Pachakutik.
After conversations, Saquicela took the floor and while he was speaking to the press they turned off the light in the plenary hall. That did not prevent the second authority of Parliament from pointing out that at the request of the block leaders he was going to address the entire Assembly.
He said that the events recorded on February 24 cannot alter the institutionality or legality, that President Guadalupe Llori withdrew from the plenary session, as did the secretary and deputy secretary, whom she asked to return, but did not appear, as well as the legal advisor; therefore, she explained that the session could not be reinstated.
In addition, Saquicela argued that since there was an appeal, the president should have commissioned the presidency to exercise her right to defense. She clarified that the point of order raised from the ranks of the PSC was not going to change the approved agenda.
The screams in the middle of the darkness continued, the assembly members turned on the lights of their cell phones to give statements. Pabel Muñoz (UNES) questioned the fact that the audio was blocked and the light was suspended in the main hall, and assured that the changes to the agenda presented in session 766 had cross-signatures, which is prohibited.
His co-idea, Marcela Holguín, coordinator of the UNES block, pointed out that from now on they will be vigilant and hope that the president of the Assembly will call the session and give way to the appeal. “They have taken away our light, but not our voice,” she said.
The president of the Assembly, Guadalupe Llori, summoned the press for an official statement and appeared surrounded by legislators from the ruling movement Creating Opportunities (CREO) and some assembly members from Pachakutik led by the coordinator, Rafael Lucero.
He blamed UNES and the PSC for the embarrassing events. He said that they did it before, in the past, “seize my home, my house, drag me and put me in jail; today they want to repeat that feat by taking the National Assembly by storm.”
Llori spoke that they want to destabilize the National Assembly and then go for the destabilization of the country. “Today they are desperate to take over the Citizen Participation Council, because in the coming weeks and months they are going to have to elect the Comptroller’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office, the National Electoral Council, they are desperate because the pacifier is getting out of hand,” he assured. .
She said that with her are the assembly members who are going to defend democracy, the legal security of the country and said that for a month they have been plotting the takeover of the National Assembly, but they will not “allow it.” To do this, she said that she will unite with all the groups that want to defend democracy.
He clarified that Guadalupe Llori has not violated any legislative procedure, therefore, he said that he has respected the Constitution, laws and legislative procedures. He explained that he suspended the plenary meeting because he did not have the necessary guarantees to continue with the session, and that he canceled session 759 convened for 7:00 p.m., which included the debate on sensitive and important issues for the country and prevent the CAL from filing the repeal of the tax reform law.
The UNES, PSC and a sector of Pachakutik maintain their position of submitting the CAL to an investigation, and announced that they will continue in their attempt.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Left ratified through the block chief, Marlon Cadena, that it defends democratic institutions and that its votes will not be for the integration of a commission ad hoc,. That in a previous session of bench chiefs it was agreed to start a process of comprehensive evaluation of all the permanent legislative commissions. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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