He Ecuadorian government He said that “no institution” can rule or stop the advisory referendum on the establishment of a constituent assembly that President Daniel Noboa again convened by decree this Saturday, since the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared the Start of the electoral period.
“From this moment, no other institution (which the CNE) has powers to pronounce or to stop the decision Sovereign of the Ecuadorians that they will decide the bases of the country they deserve, “the presidency said in a statement.
The CNE Plenary declared on Saturday morning the beginning of the Electoral process for the 2025 referendumscheduled for November and for which there are two questions at the moment; But he did not address in the session the call on the establishment of the constituent that the president He had first decreed Friday.
This is because the Constitutional Court provisionally suspended Decree 148, related to the question of the Constituent, which had been issued without obtaining before the validation Previous of the same Court, as established by the norm, and ordered the CNE to refrain from processing any action around the execution of that call.
However, hours after the CNE session, the president defeated that decree and published another in which he insisted on the call that had been suspended by the Constitutional judges.
“No power group, no politicized institution and no particular interest can stop the will of the people. Only Ecuadorians are the commanders and their voice must be heard in the polls“, the executive said in the statement.” The message is clear: The voice of Ecuador is not silencedand this government will defend it until the end, “he added.
The CNE has not reported whether the plenary plans to meet again in the next few hours to treat the New presidential call.
“What is happening in Ecuador is serious”
The president’s decision to call a Referendum for Ecuadorians to decide whether or not to establish a constituent assembly That he wrote a new Magna Carta was rejected by the director for the Americas of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Juanita Goebertus, who said that requires attention from the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).
“President Daniel Noboa insists on violate the constitutional order With a New Decree to make a popular consultation without respecting the constitutional requirements. What is happening in Ecuador is serious and requires attention from the Permanent Council of the OAS, “he said in his X account.
The measure was also criticized by lawyers, including former high courts, who assured that “a Electoral process underway It cannot, under any circumstances, be used as an excuse to dismiss, replace or limit the judges of the Constitutional Court. “
The controversial call to launch the process of a constituent assembly coincides with the open struggle that Noboa maintains with the Constitutional Courtwhom he accused of making “political activism” by limiting a series of laws and states of exception promoted in recent months by the ruler who accumulate numerous demands of unconstitutionality by warning possible violations of fundamental rights.
The jConstitutional Ueces They have also denied four referendum questions proposed by Noboa, decisions that the president criticized strongly and led him to lead Two massive marches against the magistrates in Quito and Guayaquil.
The Constituent Assembly, with which Noboa seeks to change the Magna Carta approved during the mandate of the former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), It was one of his greatest promises of the electoral campaign in which he managed to be re-elected as Ecuador’s ruler for a complete period (2025-2029), after having come to power in 2023.
