Guillermo Lasso faces trial this Tuesday

On Tuesday, the National Assembly called the representatives to a session where they will political process against the head of state Guillermo Lassowhom the opposition accuses of alleged embezzlement.

On the basis of the Organic Law on the legislative function and by order of the President of the Parliament, Virgilio Saquicela, the General Secretariat of the Assembly convened the session of the 872nd plenary session, which will be held on Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. local time (similar to Panama), at the seat of the legislaturein the canton of Quito.

According to the invitation, the first point of the day is the national anthem of Ecuador and the second, “the political process against the constitutional president of the Republic Guillermo Alberto Santiago Lasso Mendoza”.

According to the opposition, Lasso committed in the alleged embezzlement after learning about the alleged irregularities in the contract signed by the state-owned company Flota Petrolera del Ecuador (Flopec) and the private company Amazonas Tanker and did not act to avoid further damage to the state.

Instead of that, The President’s defense claims that the contracts were signed during the previous administration of former President Lenín Moreno (2017-2021). and that under Lasso’s mandate, a review was requested from the Supervisory Office in order to renew them under the conditions and objections of that body.

Last Tuesday, with 88 votes in favor, 23 against and 5 abstentions, the Parliament approved the entry into the last stage of the processwhere will be the interpellation of Las, who must defend himself before the majority opposition house, which holds parliamentary control, in accordance with the elections held this Sunday.

He Government Minister, Henry Cucalónhe already predicted that the ruler would attend the call to confirm “that he had committed no evil.”

Lasso “did not commit any embezzlement. So far there is no evidence, they have not been able to prove it because it does not exist“, assured Cucalón last Wednesday, noting that the impeachment process “legally has neither head nor tail”.

official opined that the process against Las “was born, developed and will end without any evidencewithout any arguments and many vices, but the President of the Republic, despite this, owes a message to his people.

in camera, the ruler will confirm that “there is no embezzlement by the president, not even in the sense of omissionthat there is no criminal offense against the public administration in criminal matters, in the case called Flopec”, he pointed out.

Among those who are in favor of prosecuting Las are various parliamentary groups such as Union for Hope (Union)close to former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), the conservative Social Christian Party (PSC), Las’s former election partner; he Pachakutik indigenous movement and some independent.

In case the opposition gets enough votes to remove the president, it should take over the presidency current vice president Alfredo Borrero.