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Ecuador to resume impeachment proceedings against former president Lasso

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November 29 |

Ecuador’s National Assembly will resume this Wednesday the impeachment trial against former president Guillermo Lasso (2021-2023), for alleged corruption in the public sector, according to the call issued for the plenary session of the Legislative.

The summons, signed by the president of the Parliament, will be this Wednesday at 16.00 local time (21:00 GMT), to deal with an item on the agenda.

In addition, it states that, “Impeachment against the constitutional president of the Republic, Guillermo Alberto Santiago Lasso Mendoza, as established in Article 93 of the Organic Law of the Legislative Function and in accordance with Resolution RL-2021-2023-162”.

This process was left for a vote on May 16, after the then president Guillermo Lasso exercised his defense and the interpellants presented their evidence.

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One day later, Lasso gave way to the “death cross” to dissolve the National Assembly and ordered to call for early elections, the second round of which took place on October 15 of this year.

Pamela Aguirre, president of the Political Control and Control Commission, explained to local media that in the plenary of the National Assembly there is still the interpellant Viviana Veloz, who will take up the arguments and continue the debate, where some assembly members will intervene.

Legislator Veloz, from the Citizen Revolutionary Party, was one of those who filed the charges against the then president in the previous Legislature.

Lasso was subjected to an impeachment process for irregularities in a contract, renewed during his administration, for the transportation of Ecuadorian oil, with a damage to the State for US$ 6.1 million.

The former president “will exercise his right to defense, arguing before the plenary of the National Assembly on the accusations against him”, according to Ecuadorian law.

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