Ecuador’s vice president reiterates that she will not resign in the face of Noboa’s harassment

With a new electoral process underway, in which Daniel Noboa will once again be a candidate, time is running out to decide who will take charge of the Presidency of Ecuador while he is campaigning. For 45 days the president must suspend his activities as president and the person who must replace him is the vice president, but Verónica Abad has said that she is being pressured by the president to resign from her position.

“There is no doubt that it is political persecution, there is constant political violence.“,” the vice president said in an interview from Tel Aviv.

Ambassador to Israel Abad accused President Noboa and his government of harassment on Monday, but assured that she will not resign and will remain in office, so she would temporarily assume the Presidency when Noboa must run for re-election in the next elections in 2025.

«Today they want to remove me completely“Abad said in an interview with the newspaper La Hora, where he referred to a request that is being processed by the Electoral Disputes Tribunal (TCE).

Abad, who was sent by Noboa as ambassador to Tel Aviv to mediate peace in Gaza, which highlighted a distancing that had already existed since the election campaign, said that “the harassment and mistreatment has been very clear.”

«It has not been enough for them to do everything they did since the exile to Israel and all the decrees of which I have been a victim, unconstitutional decrees.“Abad said, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility urged her not to make public statements without prior authorization and instructions.

The vice president also said that the government, including Noboa, is behind this, “because he is the head” and added that all limits have been exceeded.

Abad said ironically that she does not rule out being replaced because she has not fulfilled her mission of achieving peace in the six months she has been in Tel Aviv.

She also considered that the arrest of her son Sebastián Barreiro for an alleged case of influence peddling in the offices of the Vice Presidency is part of the harassment she denounces.

«I have denounced it and I am doing it again. It is ‘lawfare’ (use of the judicial apparatus against political adversaries). It is persecution.“, said Abad, for whom his son “He is innocent and will prove his innocence..