In the next ten days, the president of the National Assembly, Guadalupe Llori, will have to define whether or not the report presented on the amnesties requested by social and political leaders is brought to the attention of the plenary session, after the controversy that the document was presented without the backup signatures.
The president of the Constitutional Guarantees Commission, Fernando Cabascango, on February 11 presented the report that recommended granting 269 amnesties; but, according to legislator Fernando Villavicencio (CN-PSE), that report was not accompanied by supporting signatures, which could annul its processing in plenary.
The lack of signatures would invalidate the report that recommends that the National Assembly grant more than 260 amnesties
The regulations that govern the Legislative Function determine that, from the day of the presentation of the report, the president of the National Assembly has 30 days to include the document in the agenda of the plenary session. In this case, that term expires on March 13.
Meanwhile, the self-styled “rebel” legislators of Pachakutik, Mario Ruiz, Darwin Pereira, Peter Calo and Ángel Maita, warned that there is “an orchestrated plan to overthrow the amnesties in favor of social fighters.”
Pereira commented that, after carrying out technical work, in which several assembly members even had to collaborate to meet the deadline, and once the report signed by the president and the rapporteur secretary of the Constitutional Guarantees Commission was delivered, “Today they intend to overthrow this report so that amnesties are not given, and from the Pachakutik caucus and bases we have warned that these amnesties cannot be overturned, because they are legally supported.”
He said that they demand that the president of the Assembly, Guadalupe Llori, put the report on the agenda, because nothing else is appropriate than including it for discussion in plenary.
Legislator Mario Ruiz said that the country looks with concern at what happens in the Assembly, and insisted that the aim is to bring down the amnesty process. He blamed the legislator Fernando Villavicencio for prioritizing a formality regarding the signatures so that the report does not pass in plenary.
Assemblyman Villavicencio filed a complaint with the Legislative Administration Council (CAL) against the members of the Constitutional Guarantees Commission, and requested to apply a sanction for failing to fulfill his task by not signing the amnesty report. The CAL, meeting on March 2, decided to return the complaint request for him to complete the complaint, since he forgot to include his telephone number.
Villavicencio revealed that on February 11 the deadline to present the report on the amnesty requests expired, and a report was presented without the supporting signatures. The document with the signatures was presented three days after the deadline, and he stated that those who put amnesties for social leaders at risk are those who forgot to sign; the leaders of the indigenous movement must ask their legislators for an explanation, who do not know how to read the Organic Law of the Legislative Function, he said.
The only way out is to redo the report from scratch at the same legislative table, Villavicencio said, because he is not challenging the document, but rather the procedure and the irresponsibility of the members of the Guarantees Commission who processed the issue.
The president of the commission, Fernando Cabascango, explained that he sent the report to the president of the National Assembly within the term established by law; and he commented that, in the face of the accusations about the late presentation of the signatures of the members of the commission, at no time have the deadlines or the requirements determined by the internal regulations of the law that governs Parliament been breached.
Cabascango stated that they hope that the president of the Assembly convenes to debate the report in plenary. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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