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President Guillermo Lasso announced that he plans to start the process at the end of April to carry out a popular consultation on laws that have been denied by the opposition in the National Assembly and other reforms considered key for the Executive.
He did it in his program “Let’s meet for citizenship”, in which he remarked that his proposal to convene a popular consultation is due to the fact that the National Assembly has refused to approve several government initiatives.
”We are working on that popular consultation. I hope that before April 30 I can send the first procedure, the first letter to the Constitutional Court to tell it: the Government’s intention is to carry out a popular consultation “remarked the head of state.
Mothers and young people waiting for an opportunity to get ahead are a priority for our Government. We listen and work to meet the aspirations of the Ecuadorian people. pic.twitter.com/AhPSO1LJ0g
– Communication Ecuador (@ComunicacionEc) April 12, 2022
With this plebiscite, the Government plans to carry out a “set of amendments to the Constitution” that will strengthen the political system and ask the people, among other questions, regarding an Investment Law that was already denied in the Legislative Assembly, added Lasso.
“The government has the right to submit this law to popular consultation, so that it is the people who decide their future,” added the conservative-leaning president.
Lasso also hinted that he would not be willing to form a Constituent Assembly to eliminate the current Magna Carta -approved in 2008 during the government of leftist Rafael Correa (2007-2017)- and return to the 1998 one, inspired by Christian Democrats.
The possibility that the Government convene a popular referendum was established in the country as a result of the Popular Assembly’s refusal to give way to the project of the so-called Investment and Employment Generation Law, a flagship proposal by Lasso to attract capital and strengthen public-private partnerships (PPPs).
Trade unions, indigenous federations, social organizations and left-wing political movements, among other sectors, opposed the government’s proposal, considering that it favored banking and facilitated the privatization of state companies.
Analysts close to the orbit of the Lasso government have assured that, if the official forecasts are not altered, the popular consultation might be held between next September and October and would include a dozen questions on political reforms and the approval of regulations such as investment laws and employment.
With EFE data
