The Minister of the Government of Ecuador, Francisco Jiménez, assured that the impeachment request against President Guillermo Lasso, proposed by legislators close to former President Rafael Correa, will not prosper.
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“I am convinced that it will not happen,” he said in an interview with the EFE agency, considering that the petition will not find support either in some opposition groups.
Jimenez stressed that in the Assembly the opposition Social Christian Party has shown “being institutionalist” and also the left “that has stood firm in the defense of democracy,” as well as some assembly members of the Packaku indigenous movement. “They know that this fight is not for the government. Many of them criticize us very hard,” he said, emphasizing that “this fight is for democracy.”
It is worth mentioning that Parliament began a session on Saturday to resolve the dismissal of Lasso, raised by 47 assembly members of the Union for Hope (Unes) movement, at a time when the country had been protesting for twelve days called by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie), against the high cost of living.
When the discussion is over, the legislature has 72 hours to submit it to a vote. Lasso, who has been open to dialogue to deal with the demands of the indigenous people, he also denounced an attempted coup d’état.
“It is not explained in another way that there was first a series of forced social convulsionsprefabricated,” which sought to create the conditions to “later generate another movement within the Assembly,” said Jiménez.
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“Those coup plotters who are quartered in the Unes organization are going to fail, because the move has not worked out for them either on the street or in the Assembly and it is not going to work out for them”, stressed the Minister of Government.
