Three days after the publication in the Official Registry of the 268 amnesties granted by the National Assembly, 43 errors were detected in the names, identity card numbers and causes; two beneficiaries were also omitted. All this is intended to be corrected with an errata faith.
The legislator rapporteur of the amnesties, Mario Ruiz Jácome, of the Pachakutik bench, sent an errata to the secretariat of the National Assembly to correct the errors detected in the document approved by the Legislature, with 99 votes, on March 10.
The publication of the legislative resolution was made on March 15 in the Third Supplement of the Official Register No. 021, where there is a list of 268 people prosecuted in 60 court cases for 22 crimes.
The amnesty granted to 268 people by the Assembly was published in the Official Registry
The matrix of the errata of the resolution that grants amnesties approved by the plenary session of the Assembly determines that seven errors were made in the cases related to the prosecution for exercising the right to resistance and social protest.
Among them, those against the former president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) Jaime Vargas, one of which has an error in its respective number.
There are 32 errors in the processes related to community rights defenders; two for defense of nature; one for administration of indigenous justice; and one prosecuted dismissed.
Furthermore, it was determined that Messrs. Eduardo Javier Armas Díaz and Richard Mario Paredes, who appear in the final amnesty report sent by the Commission on Constitutional Guarantees, Human Rights, Collective Rights and Interculturality, and known by the plenary session of the National Assembly on the subject “Defenders of community rights”, by a slip of the pen were not considered in the resolution, “must be included among the beneficiaries of the amnesties together with the rest of the defendants in the case indicated above,” says the document that supports the errata.
In all this group of cases in which they made mistakes, the following are recorded:
- 31 in identity card number.
- 9 in the name of the beneficiary.
- 3 in the case number.
- 2 cases of people who were omitted from the amnesty list.
The president of the Constitutional Guarantees Commission, José Cabascango, He disclaimed responsibility for the errors, since he said that it is an issue that the assembly member who will present the resolution will have to answer, in this case the legislator Ruiz Jácome, because the table’s report is clearly supported both legally and technically.
Julio César Sarango, legal adviser to the president of the National Assembly, He spoke of “small, minimal changes of a number that has been confused by typing. And what has been done is to rectify that and nothing more, because the document remains the same as it was approved by the plenary session of the National Assembly.”
It revealed that the errors were detected in the identification numbers and letters in certain names, and that the number of cases does not even reach five.
Sarango said that the forms cannot affect the substance of the legislative decision to grant amnesties, since they constitute small lapses. That those errors may have been made at the time the technicians typed.
Regarding the protection action presented by a group of citizens of Quito for the legislative resolution related to the amnesties, Sarango revealed that the National Assembly has already been notified and that they will attend the hearing and that they will assert the rights based on the law and the Constitution.
Andrés Castillo, who presented an action of unconstitutionality to the resolution of the National Assembly, assured that there are more than 40 problems detected in the amnesties, such as non-matching ID numbers, names that do not match ID numbers, people who were included in the amnesty process and who were not included in the resolution. That is, it is a mixture of errors.
Castillo said that the leaders of Conaie and the Pachakutik movement, both defenders of amnesties, affirmed that the resolution of the National Assembly was engraved in stone, that there is nothing left to do, that nothing fits, because it was published in the Registry. Official.
Then, Castillo added, if there is nothing to do in the Constitutional and legal aspects, they could not make any adjustments to the resolution either, because it has already been published. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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