The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) asked this Monday that the impeachment trial facing the Ecuadorian president, the right-wing Guillermo Lasso, offer “guarantees” and respect due process.
Source: AFP
Ecuador’s Congress, dominated by the left, A political trial against Lasso begins this Tuesday to try to remove him for alleged corruption.
This judgment can lead to three possible scenarios: his dismissal, the dissolution of Congress or his permanence in office.
Lasso faces strong opposition currents in Parliament such as the movement related to former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), who lives in Belgium, and Pachakutik, the political arm of the powerful indigenous sector that tried to remove him a year ago.
In a brief statement, the OAS General Secretariat insists on the need for the trial to “offer all the guarantees of justice and respect the rules of due process.”
“The principle must be respect for the constitutional mandates of presidents elected by popular vote, that presidential terms and terms are exercised more fully, without pressure or threats,” the note added.
Lasso, A 67-year-old former right-wing banker is accused of alleged embezzlement in the management of the state shipping company Flota Petrolera Ecuatoriana (Flopec). through contracts established between 2018 and 2020.
Ecuador is mired in a political crisis that the president attributes to the opposition.
The president, who is considered victim of conspiracies He affirmed during the Ibero-American Summit in March that the opposition seeks to come to power “not by vote, but by a parliamentary coup d’état.”
The OAS General Secretariat considers “it is fundamental that all the actors that participate in this process act with the greatest responsibility and political and institutional restraint”, says the statement, retweeted by Lasso.
