The fate of Lasso and his eventual replacement depends on the Parliament in Ecuador

The fate of the president Ecuadorthe conservative William Lassowill be debated in the National Assembly (Parliament), with an opposition majority, after the ruling this Wednesday of the Constitutional Court to admit the process of a political trial of censorship against him.

Accused by the opposition of embezzlement (embezzlement), a figure accepted by the Court, the 67-year-old ruler, who has completed nearly two years of his four term in office, will face a probable early departure from power in the political trial in the that the opposition claims to have the votes to do so.

Political analyst and former legislator Ramiro Aguilar said he had no doubts that the opposition would easily add the 92 votes required for censorship, since he believed that Lasso, with his very neoliberal style and linked almost exclusively to financial capital, has put almost everyone in his against.

Even certain business sectors and the political right that in principle supported him would be satisfied with a change of direction in the Executive, Aguilar told EFE.

The opposition accuses Lasso of being politically responsible for an alleged corruption plot in public companies where his brother-in-law appears, the businessman Danilo Carrera, allegedly having knowledge of it and, also allegedly, protecting another member of a police investigation for links with drug trafficking.

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For Aguilar, the trial should lead to a constitutional relief, which would allow Vice President Alfredo Borrero to become the country’s new president, although with the aim of directing an orderly transition in the time that would remain for his eventual administration.

Aguilar pointed out that if the relief is given, the new president should carry out a “Transitional Government” give a “turn of the rudder” towards social causes, put aside neoliberalism and, furthermore, seek the support of progressive sectors.

One should even think about a cabinet that includes opposition figures, he suggested.

And it is that for this analyst, Lasso’s fate was cast since last February 5 when the majority of the people told him “No” to a referendum on a variety of issues that was held in parallel to local elections, in which he was also widely defeated by correísmo and other opposition forces.

“Lasso’s mandate was revoked” in practice and since then it has been accumulating important political setbacks, paid with complaints about corruption in public companies that have splashed people from circles very close to the president.

The card of the “cross death”

The lawyer also ruled out that Lasso has any cards to play, since it would be difficult for him to use the call “cross death”with which he could dissolve Parliament, anticipate the elections and govern a year by decree.

According to Aguilar, Lasso could sign the decree to dissolve the National Assembly, but would need the approval of the Constitutional Court, which has just accepted the censorship impeachment trial against him.

Aguilar even observed that the Constitutional Court accepted the trial against Lasso under the accusation of embezzlement, for which reason he surely warned that there would be elements to accept that as the cause of the process.

The Government, for its part, has already accepted the ruling of the Constitutional Court, but rejected the political trial against President Lasso on the grounds that he has no legal basis.

Failure “somehow validates the arguments raised by the legislature against the President”accepted the Government but remarked that “The Assembly’s approach never had and will never have any legal or political support.”

Source: EFE