Lasso will be able to apply and the deadline to call elections in Ecuador is May 24, resolves the CNE

The maximum date to call early general elections in Ecuador is next May 24, informed this Wednesday the National Electoral Council (CNE), a few hours after the head of state, William Lassodissolve the Parliament and ask that general elections be called.

The president of the CNE, Diana Atamaintsaid at a press conference that they have 7 days to call elections, and because time begins to run from this Thursday, “May 24 is the deadline”, although they could do it before.

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He indicated that it is achallenge” to carry out the voting process within the next 90 days, and noted that in the next few hours they will organize an electoral calendar, coordinated with the Electoral Contentious Tribunal (organ of electoral justice), which must be approved by the plenary session of the CNE.

The technical areas are in the “hard task, but not impossible”, to raise the risk and contingency matrix operational plan, guidelines and budget for the 2023 presidential and legislative elections, he said.

“Those who are elected to this electoral process will be elected to complete the period, that is, they will exercise their functions until May 23, 2025.″, he clarified.

In addition, he reported that the legal area is working on the preparation of specific regulations for this extraordinary electoral process, in order to comply with all the milestones determined by the Democracy Code and thus guarantee the rights of political participation to all actors.

In this context, the CNE ratified its commitment to carry out “a efficient and transparent electoral process”, the same one that requires all the actors involved to join forces “to give peace of mind to the country”.

“The Electoral function is ready, and therefore it is necessary to count immediately” with an approved budget, “which will be planned with criteria of absolute austerity, without jeopardizing the quality of the electoral process”, he stressed.

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He made an appeal to the political and institutional actors to carry out this unprecedented electoral process with maturity and responsibility.

Atamaint said that the possibility of joining the early presidential and legislative elections with other pending processes on national and local citizen consultations is still being analyzed.

Lasso can apply

The CNE president pointed out that, for the moment, the head of state has no legal impediment to run for re-election.

And when asked about this possibility, the Minister of Government, Henry Cucalon noted: “The President of the Republic will inform, in due time, what is his legitimate and legal decision to participate, or not, in the elections.”.

In a message to the nation, Lasso announced the figure popularly known as “death cross”, contemplated in the Ecuadorian Constitution by “serious internal and political upheaval”, after having appeared before the Assembly on Tuesday to make his defense argument against the accusation made by the opposition for an alleged crime of embezzlement (embezzlement).

The president resorted to thedeath cross”, which implies the dissolution of Parliament, before the start of the second day of debate that was to take place in the Chamber to later vote on the motion of censure, in which 92 votes were required to remove him, equivalent to two thirds of the chamber .

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Stephen Torreswho last Sunday was elected second vice president of the Ecuadorian Parliament, attended this Wednesday the Constitutional court to file a claim of unconstitutionality for Lasso’s decision.

Although Cucalón insisted that “It will be the Court that rules“, at the moment “the decree is executed, the National Assembly is dissolved, is duly notified”, he stressed.

Source: Elcomercio

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