The National Assembly (AN) also confirmed Alfredo Ruiz in his position as Ombudsman. He appointed Gustavo Vizcaíno to the Comptroller’s Office. Both appointments were approved with the vote of the qualified majority of the plenary session.
The National Assembly (AN) of 2020 ratified Tarek William Saab as attorney general and Alfredo Ruiz as ombudsman. Gustavo Vizcaíno was elected as Comptroller General of the Republic.
The appointments were consummated in the ordinary session of this October 31, in which the swearing-in of the officials also took place, who will serve in the aforementioned positions for seven years. The expediting of this process was in charge of the Citizen Power Nomination Evaluation Committee, chaired by deputy Giuseppe Alesandrello and which was formed at the beginning of October.
After the presentation of the report in the plenary session, a special commission made up of Alessandrello and deputies José Gregorio Correa, Tania Díaz, Pedro Carreño, Timoteo Zambrano, Alfonso Campos, Bernabé Gutiérrez, Desire Santos and José Villarroel was appointed for the evaluation at the time of the credentials of the 48 applicants.
Unofficial versions advanced Saab’s ratification days before the session. The official has been in office since 2017, when he was appointed by the defunct constituent assembly. In his speeches he has boasted about confronting the fight against corruption and illegal acts, even behind the scenes of the justice system. This year, when presidential elections were held, he issued arrest warrants against political leaders close to opposition leader María Corina Machado.
Alfredo Ruiz came to the defense in the same year as Saab and under the same conditions. Ruiz was executive director of the Ombudsman’s Office during the period 2014-2016. He served as technical secretary of the National Commission for the Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment since August 1, 2016.
Gustavo Vizcaíno, meanwhile, served as director of the Administrative Service for Migration and Immigration Identification (Saime), since 2018. In 2021 he ran for the National Electoral Council. He is substitute rector of the CNE, appointed on June 4, 2021 by the AN.
The appointments were approved with a qualified majority. Previously, deputy Giuseppe Alessandrello recalled that on October 10 he and other deputies, including the opposition José Gregorio Correa, were selected to join the Citizen Power Nominations Committee. He commented that on October 11 the instance was declared in permanent session.
He added that the applications began on October 15 and were extended until the 25th of the same month. In total there were 128 people who initially applied. Alesandrello explained that in the challenge phase only one request was received, but it was not admitted due to lack of evidence. After the evaluation process, the list was reduced to 48 eligible applicants.
He last weekendthe National Assembly published the list of those who carried out the collections. Before the purge process, the list to occupy the position in the Ombudsman’s Office had 58 candidates, among whom was the former deputy and activist Enrique Ochoa Antich.
A list of 35 candidates for the position of Comptroller General was also presented, which included Elvis Junior Hidrobo Pérez, son of the current president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), the ruling party Elvis Hidrobo Amoroso.
For the position of attorney general, in addition to Saab, there were 34 other candidates, among whom was the lawyer and former deputy prosecutor of the Public Ministry, Katherine Harrington, sanctioned by the United States, Canada and the European Union for considering that she has “violated human rights.” .
Parliament continued this October 31 with the second discussion of the bill to reform the Organic Law of the Communes. Its deferral was requested.
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