The President warned to use “the law, the Constitution (…) and the entire public force” against those who want to harm the country.
The program ‘Meet us for the Citizenship’, which was broadcast this Tuesday, December 21, 2021, ended with a warning from the president Guillermo Lasso, to the president of the Conaie, Leonidas Iza. The President indicated that “the law and the constitution” and “all public force” will be used in case they seek to “anarchy” the country.
“Mr Leonidas Iza It must be faced with the Constitution and with the law in hand. Saying clearly that these anarchic attitudes contravene the Constitution and legal provisions. And we are going to confront it with all the power of the State, with all the public force to those who want to anarchy this country ”, indicated the Head of State.
According to the President, they will seek to sanction those who try to interrupt public services and “deepen an economic crisis already affected by the pandemic.” Then he said that those who do will end up “with their bones in jail.”
Minutes before, he said that he would have an attitude of openness to social and union organizations to seek agreements and solutions. Then he spoke of the leader of the Conaie, who anda announced mobilizations next year.
“The Lord Leonidas Iza is a anarchist. He hates democracy, the institutionality of Ecuador ”. He also launched accusations about what happened in October 2019. “He is efficient in setting fire to public buildings, he is efficient in promoting the kidnapping of journalists and policemen, he is efficient in sending someone to throw a stone in the back, in a cowardly way, at a journalist”.
The President’s response was given after the journalist Valeria Mena’s question about the intention of the Conaie to apply indigenous justice against the assembly members of Pachakutik (its political arm) who show sympathy with the Government.
In fact, this Tuesday (today) at 09:00 a meeting of the Conaie in Otavalo (Imbabura) to interpellate “through indigenous justice” legislators who are, supposedly, aligned with the government of Guillermo Lasso.
The decision was made Iza and notified the legislators, including the president of the Legislature, Guadalupe Llori; the coordinator of the bench, Rafael Lucero, and the national coordinator of PK, Marlon Santi.
The objective is to resolve the conflict and the “llaki” (damage) caused by the legislators, because despite the fact that they must fulfill collective mandates, they have shown “contempt and treason, seriously affecting and undermining the integrity of peoples and nationalities”.
However, some 14 legislators from Pachakutik met online and indicated that the Conaie it has no jurisdiction to apply a sanction to them. Lasso also indicated that Iza He is a violent man against women for the warning to apply indigenous justice to the Pachakutik parliamentary group where there are legislators. (DP)
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