The Ecuadorian National Council has until May 24 to call early elections within a maximum period of three months. This means that in August, Ecuadorians will vote again to elect a new president and renew the Assembly. And according to the current scenario, Correísmo has a good chance of returning to power
Ecuador is headed for general elections to complete the four-year period that Guillermo Lasso began, after the Constitutional Court dismissed the appeals against the dissolution of parliament with which Lasso avoided impeachment. Thus, a new chapter opens in Ecuadorian political life. A kind of restart, a reset, without Guillermo Lasso and with a new Assembly, as he explains Ismael Quintana, professor of Constitutional Law on the RFI antenna: “With all the scandals that the National Assembly had here, people did not see it well, so well-informed citizens, those who read newspapers, or those active in social networks welcomed the presidential decision. Now people also wait for time to pass quickly and a decision is made and a new president is elected. President Lasso does not have great popularity, less than 15% acceptance and that is why he has announced not to run in this process”
Quintana speaks clearly of “reset” and differentiates between what is happening in the neighbor Peru.
This opens the door to the return to correísmo, saccording to the constitutionalist. “The only political organization that has the structure and preparation to respond to this electoral process is Correísmo” Quintana says on our antenna that he predicts a new Assembly with a correista majority that will surely have a candidate in the second presidential round.
And without congress, how will it be governed in the meantime, since the Constitutional Court will continue to play a leading role because it will be in charge of sanctioning the decree laws on economic matters issued by the Executive.
Lasso rejected the charges against him as politically motivated; supporters call them fake. He is the first Ecuadorian president to invoke the death crosswhich effectively halves his four-year term. He was added to the constitution when Correa was president.
Some saw the move as a last-minute effort to avoid a impeachmenta calculation that the votes were against him in impeachment
