The Union for Hope (UNES) bench continues its efforts to advance the process of impeachment against the four members of the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS) who today make up the majority in that institution and who dismissed Sofía Almeida from her position as president.
To do this, the legislator for Guayas Ferdinan Álvarez withdrew the request for impeachment filed against the State Attorney, Íñigo Salvador, with the purpose that the Oversight Commission prioritize the processing of the processes against the CPCCS councilors.
CAL qualified political trials posed to the members of the Council for Citizen Participation and the Council of the Judiciary
He stated that the country is experiencing difficult times not only in the economy and institutionality. For this reason, as a bench of the Citizen Revolution, it withdrew the impeachment request against the prosecutor, “this so that the Oversight Commission immediately proceeds to qualify the impeachment request against the four CPCCS councilors.”
Álvarez clarified that the withdrawal of the trial of the State Attorney is not withdrawal, since the grounds for the trial are still in force. Therefore, once the lawsuits against the CPCCS councilors are qualified, he will reapply.
The four councilors whom the UNES caucus wants to prosecute are Hernán Ulloa, María Fernanda Rivadeneira, Ibeth Estupiñan and Francisco Bravo.
This political sector considers that the withdrawal of the trial will prevent the Oversight Commission, chaired by Fernando Villavicencio, from delaying the processing of the process.
But, according to the order of priority of the trials qualified by the Legislative Administration Council (CAL), and notified to the Oversight Commission, before the trial of the four CPCCS counselors, in addition to the trial against Íñigo Salvador, the request questioning the National Electoral Council (CNE) and the Judicial Council. There is also a political trial filed and qualified against all the members of the CPCCS.
For this reason, Álvarez ordered the legislators of Pachakutik to proceed with the withdrawal of the lawsuit against the CNE.
The president of the Oversight Commission, Fernando Villavicencio, warned that in the law that governs the National Assembly there is not a single argument that justifies the decision of a questioning legislator to withdraw the impeachment request; and, as there are no regulations, he asked the presidency of the Assembly to request a legal criterion from the Legislative Technical Unit, because the commission has not yet acknowledged the request for a trial against the prosecutor.
He stated that, outside the regulations and the strict and ethical convictions of Parliament, he finds it shameful that a legislator who says that the State Attorney is the lawyer of the transnationals and who presents evidence of alleged breach of duties days later changes his opinion for the interests of advancing the trial against the CPCCS.
What remains clear, added Villavicencio, is absolute bad faith, because they use the figure of impeachment to conspire. The UNES movement is not interested in the fight against corruption or oversight, but rather “appropriates the Citizen Participation Council to take control of all institutions,” he said.
He stated that, at the request of Assemblyman Ferdinan Álvarez, he will act in law once a criterion is submitted by the Legislative Technical Unit.
That at the moment, revealed Villavicencio, the Oversight Commission has on the agenda the trial of the State Attorney General, the National Electoral Council, the Judicial Council and two notifications of trial to the members of the Citizen Participation Council. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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