The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboahas announced the celebration of a march towards the headquarters of the Constitutional Court to protest against the alleged interference of the judges in the political decisions of the Government, after Monday the aforementioned court provisionally suspended more than twenty twenty articles of key laws.
Noboa has claimed during a public event in Guayas that the Constitution itself establishes that “Maximum power has it in public”for what has called citizens to demonstrate “peacefully” on August 12. The president has announced that he will go “to make the true power of the people feel.”
“We cannot allow nine people enthroned, who do not even want to appear in photo, come and throw down the laws that can give security to each of you,” Noboa has proclaimed, referring to the measures taken Monday by the magistrates.
The Constitutional Court approved the provisional suspension of 25 articles of the Organic Law of National Solidarity, the Organic Law of Intelligence and the Organic Law of Public Integrity, three of the star measures of the Government that had been denounced by organizations that warn of a potential violation of basic rights.
The judicial decision resulted in an appearance by the Minister of Government, Zaida Rovira, of the President of the Assembly, Niels Olsen, in which, accompanied by police and military, the suspension rejected sharply, which has in turn generated new criticisms of organizations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The person responsible for the Americas of this NGO, Juanita Goebertus, has lamented this type of “attacks” to the Constitutional Court, an institution that considers “key to protecting the rule of law” and that “act independently and without pressures” should be “. “The authorities must respect and guarantee their work,” he said.
