The Constitutional Court provisionally suspended the call of President Daniel Noboa, who called a popular consultation.
The Constitutional Court provisionally suspended the call of President Daniel Noboa to a popular consultation, hours before the Electoral Council sessions to learn about the president’s request.
The Court reported that it accepted five demands for unconstitutionality to the Decree of Noboa with which it called a popular consultation for the installation of a Constituent Assembly and ordered the National Electoral Council to organize the process. The government’s decision unleashed a country debate on the legality or not of the call.
Noboa argues that the Constitution empowers him to request the popular consultation. But the Court itself indicated that “any proposal for the Constituent Assembly must respect the Constitution and the mechanisms of constitutional control.”
Friction between the Executive and the Constitutional Court
This seemed to accentuate the friction between the Executive and the Constitutional Court, which began after the temporary suspension of several articles of three laws approved by the Legislative, of an official majority, in the midst of the process of unconstitutionality lawsuits.
The Government immediately referred to that same body a sheet of popular consultation questions for its guarantee. This included the political control of constitutional judges themselves. Most were denied by the Court.
The expectation focuses on Saturday on the National Electoral Council that convened a session to know the call to popular consultation and referendum sent by the president.
The question sent by the President points out: Do you agree that a Constituent Assembly, whose representatives are elected by the Ecuadorian people, according to the electoral rules provided in the Deputy Constituent Statute, to prepare a new Constitution of the Republic? ”
Another call
Noboa had also previously sent to the electoral body the call for the plebiscite on the installation of foreign military bases and eliminate state financing for political parties and organizations. These received the endorsement of the Constitutional Court.
According to the constitutionalist Ismael Quintana, the Electoral Council “cannot give way to the call on the Constituent” because the electoral law determines that “every call to consultation can be resolved if you have the opinion of the Constitutional Court.”
Noboa, a billionaire politician, is in his first year of his second term initiated in May and faces the challenge of fighting the growing violence and the discomfort of social and indigenous sectors that summoned a unemployment for the recent rise in the price of diesel.
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