Mayor Cynthia Viteri announced early this Saturday that the request for precautionary measures presented by the Ministry of Education was denied.
Early this Saturday, January 29, 2022, the mayor of Guayaquil, Cynthia Viteri, published on her Twitter account part of the resolution of the Guayas Juvenile Offenders Judicial Unit on the request for precautionary measures requested by the Ministry of Education against the prohibition of the Municipality of Guayaquil for the restart of face-to-face school activities In the canton.
At the top of the document published by Viteri it reads: «Deny precautionary measures«. The Mayoress accompanied the image with a triumphant message: “Justice agrees with the Municipality of Guayaquil regarding face-to-face classes. Education was not suspended, only the right to health was protected,” he points out in relation to the decision of the cantonal COE to suspend face-to-face classes for 30 days in Guayaquil schools.
This measure clashes with the decision adopted by the national COE on January 22 to authorize the voluntary return (according to the parents’ decision) of face-to-face in classrooms from the previous Monday (January 24).
From that day on, an impasse arose between the Municipality and the Ministry well the first has closed the schools that have allowed the return to classrooms while the State portfolio insists that neither the cantonal COE nor the Cabildo, per se, have jurisdiction over education and cannot prevent the return or close schools for that reason.
And for this reason, on January 25, the ministerial authorities announced two legal measures (precautionary measuresprotection action) and an administrative one (challenge) against the decisions of the Municipality. In this conflict, the Cabildo won the first battle by denying the precautionary measures. The Government has two more left. (DLH)
THE JUSTICE GIVES THE RIGHT TO THE MUNICIPALITY OF GUAYAQUIL IN RELATION TO PRESENTIAL CLASSES.
EDUCATION WAS NOT SUSPENDED,
ONLY THE RIGHT TO HEALTH WAS PROTECTED. pic.twitter.com/NwEuDiC6Bq— Cynthia Viteri (@CynthiaViteri6) January 29, 2022
