Noboa has dismissed Abad to prevent him from assuming the presidency when he takes leave to campaign for elections.
MADRID, 4 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The suspended vice president of Ecuador, Verónica Abad, has denounced that the country’s president, Daniel Noboa, intends to carry out a coup d’état, preventing the presidential succession and against the Constitution and current laws.
“On Sunday, January 5, the presidential succession must take place 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 the public function, with the sole reason of causing disorder, due to just a whim, (since) up to this moment he has not given us Ecuadorians a reason (as to) why he does it,” Abad stated during a telematic conference organized by the Council for Rights Humans in Latin America (CODHAL) and Ecuadorian groups in Europe.
Abad has indicated that if it is consummated it would be a breach of the Constitution and also of other laws, such as the Code of Democracy for “improper use of public resources, putting at a disadvantage compared to the 15 competitors who also have the right to equality of conditions”.
The president of the National Assembly of Ecuador has called a virtual session for this Saturday to debate the possibility of President Noboa requesting a license to participate in the electoral campaign next February, since 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.
However, 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.
“LEGAL HERESY”
The suspended vice president Abad has also criticized Decree 492 by which she declares Abad herself absent from her position and appoints Sariha Moya to the position, which Abad considers “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, for its part, maintains 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 advisor on economic issues at the Ecuadorian Embassy.
Abad argues that according to the Organic Law of Foreign Service she has a period of 30 days to fulfill this new task, but the Government maintains that this regulation is not applicable to her because she is not a diplomatic career official.