The National Assembly celebrates eight days of stagnation in the processing of bills in the legislative plenary session after the chaos that occurred on February 24, when President Guadalupe Llori suspended the session amid claims from her opponents, who appealed the presidency.
The accusations for the legislative crisis do not stop between the allies of the Government who support Guadalupe Llori and those who consider themselves opponents and insist on subjecting the members of the Legislative Administration Council (CAL) to an evaluation.
The crisis deepened when the blocs of Unión por la Esperanza (UNES), Partido Social Cristiano (PSC) and a sector of Pachakutik proposed a resolution calling for a commission to be set up to evaluate the tasks carried out by CAL, where it would be determined by why two bills that proposed the repeal of the tax law were not qualified and why the order of qualification of the impeachment proposed to the four councilors of the new majority of the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS) was altered.
It is not yet officially known that President Guadalupe Llori has called a plenary session for next week, while her opponents insist on calling themselves a plenary meeting if her room is closed. For that operation, at least 91 votes are needed.
Parallel to the legislative crisis, in Parliament the process of the urgent economic project on investments continues, whose deadline for its approval in two debates will expire on March 24, that is, the Legislative has less than three weeks to discuss and approve the proposal of the government; otherwise, the full text of the Executive will enter into force by operation of law.
The doors of the plenary hall are still closed and the lights are off, declared the coordinator of UNES, Marcela Holguín, who blamed the president of Parliament for not calling the plenary this week. “The president out of fear does not want to open the doors and we continue with a National Assembly in which the lights are simply turned off, for which we demand the president of the Assembly,” she stressed.
As a warning, Holguín added, there are blocs that are willing to apply what is determined in article 5 of the Organic Law of the Legislative Function, which refers to the self-convening of plenary sessions.
Holguín, surrounded by most of the members of her caucus, recalled that there are two resolution requests for the plenary session to deal with the project that proposes to repeal the tax law through the reinstatement of session 758, initially convened for January 25 , but that this issue has remained on the desk of the presidency of the Assembly. “We are for the repeal of the tax law and we demand that the president of the Assembly resume the sessions,” she reiterated.
The pro-government legislator Juan Fernando Flores (CREO) commented that 91 votes are needed to convene the plenary session, and announced that the National Agreement Bench (BAN) will not lend itself to it, because the National Assembly is firm, adhering to the law and the calls established by the president of the National Assembly, Guadalupe Llori.
He called on the other legislative caucuses not to play the game of those who, because they were conspiring, forgot to sign the report on the amnesties.
He warned that sanctions will be applied to those legislators who did not give a quorum on Saturday, February 26, as well as those assembly members who, “very brave and fervent, shouted, pushed and insulted.”
“Don’t be fooled, the same as always want to disrupt the institutionality of the National Assembly, the same as always are the ones who don’t allow this Assembly to move forward and work,” he said.
From the sector of the Pachakutik rebels, Mario Ruiz and Darwin Pereira reiterated that the Legislative Administration Council (CAL) has to be evaluated and that they will insist on that purpose in the next sessions.
Ruiz urged the president of the National Assembly, Guadalupe Llori, to convene plenary sessions in person, and that it cannot be possible for plenary sessions to be subject to the fear that there is or is not a majority in favor of who presides over Parliament. Otherwise, she warned that they will have to find a way to self-convene to reactivate the sessions in the plenary session of the Assembly. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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