Before going to vote for the 269 amnesties in favor of social and political leaders who participated in events related to the events of October 2019, indigenous justice and defense of nature, the National Assembly hopes to resolve a legal conflict caused by the presentation of the report, whose signatures of support were made official after the deadline.
The last item on the legislative agenda of session 767 convened for this Wednesday, March 9 at 2:00 p.m., includes the amnesty report submitted by the Commission on Constitutional Guarantees, Human Rights, Collective Rights and Interculturality.
The legislative benches await a legal resolution from the Assembly in which it determines whether the plenary session can hear the report presented by the legislative table, without the corresponding supporting signatures. The signatures of the members of the table were presented three days after the notification to the Presidency of the Parliament.
The lack of signatures would invalidate the report that recommends that the National Assembly grant more than 260 amnesties
This fact generated more than one observation in the legislature, including the legislator Fernando Villavicencio, filed a complaint with the Council of Legislative Administration (CAL), so that the nine members of the Constitutional Guarantees table be sanctioned for presenting a report without signatures . However, the complainant withdrew his complaint, but criticism continues about the way in which the commission chaired by the Pichincha legislator, Fernando Cabascango (Pachakutik), proceeded.
The coordinator of the National Agreement-CREO Bench, Juan Fernando Flores, commented that the risk is not in “the National Assembly wanting to wash its hands of what the commission chaired by Fernando Cabascango did, but rather that the risk is that the day tomorrow any judge will not process these amnesties and whoever loses is the requesting citizen”.
Flores explained that the presentation of the signatures in support of the report, after the deadline, would call into question the complexity of how the process was presented, and that this would imply two options: return to the commission to resolve it or return resubmit procedures.
He insisted that it would be irresponsible for the National Assembly to approve amnesties to look good, and that at the end of the day the judges do not rule on the citizen’s freedom, due to procedural errors made at the Parliament level.
The pro-government legislator anticipated that there are Ecuadorian citizens who deserve amnesties, but there are also citizens where impunity will not be allowed for the events in which they are responsible, as in the events of October 2019.
The law is clear, he added, that the Guarantees Commission had 30 days to deliver a report, but this report cannot be delivered without the signatures of the assembly members who approved the document.
The legislator of the Democratic Left Wilma Andrade warned that in the face of amnesties they will not vote in a package, that there must be an analysis of each case, guaranteeing human rights.
In the case of applicants for the events of October 2019, information from the State Attorney General’s Office must be available, to prevent these amnesties from generating legal problems and setting a bad precedent for the country. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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