The decision of the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, to relieve Verónica Abad of her position would prevent her from assuming the Presidency starting next January 5, when the president is expected to take a leave of absence to participate in the electoral campaign.
The suspended vice president of Ecuador, Veronica Abad, He denounced that President Daniel Noboa intends to carry out a “coup d’état” by preventing the presidential succession and against the Constitution and current laws.
«On Sunday, January 5, the presidential succession has to take place in Ecuador or we would be facing a coup d’état, facing a person who solely due to his authoritarianism, due to non-compliance with the law, poorly using decrees, poorly using resources, poorly using public office,” Abad denounced.
As spread Europa Pressthe suspended vice president of Ecuador said that Daniel Noboa seeks to “disorder, just on a whim, (since) up to this moment he has not given us Ecuadorians a reason (as to) why he does it.”
The statements were made during a telematic conference organized by the Council for Human Rights in Latin America (Codhal) and Ecuadorian groups in Europe.
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Likewise, he maintained that if the President of Ecuador consummates his purpose it would be a breach of the Constitution and also of the Code of Democracy due to “improper use of public resources, putting him at a disadvantage compared to the 15 competitors who also have the right to equal opportunities.” conditions”.
The president of the National Assembly of Ecuador called a virtual session for this Saturday, January 4, to debate the possibility of President Noboa requesting a license to participate in the electoral campaign next February. Article 93 of the Code of Democracy establishes that if the president aspires to re-election, he must take unpaid leave from the beginning of the electoral campaign.
Noboa’s party, National Democratic Action (ADN), warns of a possible crime of usurpation and simulation of public functions if Noboa is forced to take leave to campaign for elections.
Noboa’s decision to relieve Abad of his position would prevent her from assuming the Presidency starting next January 5, when the president is expected to take a leave of absence to participate in the electoral campaign ahead of the elections on February 9. , in which 16 candidates are registered.
For his administration, Noboa is not obliged to take a leave of absence, because for the purposes of the law he would not be participating in a “re-election” because he completed the presidential term of Guillermo Lasso, interrupted after the death of the cross was decreed.
The suspended vice president of Ecuador also criticized Decree 492 by which she is declared absent from office and appoints Sariha Moya to the position. For Abad this is “legal heresy.”
“Executive decree number 492 is an absolutely unconstitutional, arbitrary and invalid legal heresy,” he noted in a message published on his account on the social network provision.
The Government of Ecuador considers that Verónica Abad has left an “institutional vacuum” because she requested vacations without authorization and without a license accepted by the National Assembly, in addition to not appearing until December 27 in Ankara, Turkey, to fulfill her appointment as counselor in economic issues at the Ecuadorian Embassy.
But, Abad argues that according to the Organic Law of Foreign Service, he has a period of 30 days to fulfill this new task.
