Representatives of guilds and collectives of Quito announced, on the morning of this Friday, March 11, the start of legal actions against the amnesty processes approved by 99 assembly members in favor of prosecuted for the October 2019 strike. In addition, they anticipated that They will request the revocation of the legislators of Pichincha who voted in favour.
After the press conference that took place after 11:00 at the Dann Carlton Hotel, north of the capital, there was a private meeting of the representatives to analyze more legal actions and sit-ins against the decisions made by legislators.
Patrick Alarcon, former president of the Quito Chamber of Commerce pointed out that during the national strike of October 2019 $ 800 million were lost nationwide and that only Quito exceeded $ 200 million of economic losses.
“We can not go on depending on the mistakes made by the authorities by different political alliances, we do not rule out requesting the revocation of the mandate of the people (assembly members) who basically gave him impunity for those who lived to destroy the city, they committed crimes of kidnapping, extortion, vandalism (…) in general they committed acts of terrorism against the city of Quito”, he emphasized.
In addition, he said that today’s meeting will serve to generate defense actions against upcoming mobilizations that take place in the city. “We Quiteños are going to defend ourselves, the next time they come to try to commit acts of vandalism, we are going to give them what they deserve,” said Alarcón.
Another of the representatives who called this press conference was Andres Castillo, who pointed out that the The decision taken by the Assembly was inconsistent in legal and practical aspects.
According to the lawyer “indiscriminately granted amnesty to 268 citizens”. For this reason, they will enter the action for the protection of rights against the resolution of the National Assembly.
He added that his position is not against the amnesty process as an applicable remedy according to the legal system, but rather rejects that Each case has not been analyzed independently. “It is not the same to judge a citizen who fells a tree as it is to judge those who led acts of terrorism, kidnapping, extortion, that is, acts of lese humanity”, he limited.
Next Tuesday they will enter the protection action, according to Castillo, who asserted that, If the appeal is not admitted, they will go to provincial courts. In addition, he advanced that, if after the legal and constitutional actions that they will take, their requests are not granted, They will call for citizen marches through the streets of the capital.
Finally, they explained that the request for revocation of mandate will proceed against the assembly members of Pichincha, because this resource can only be entered by the voters of the territorial constituency to which they belong, that is, the assembly members elected in another province would be in the decision of their voters.
“The law establishes that the mandate revocation process proceeds one year after its possession, that is to say, May 14, it is close and we have enough time”, added Castillo. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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