The Minister of Government, Francisco Jiménez, referred once more to the habeas corpus granted to former Vice President Jorge Glas, which has sparked an intense debate in Ecuador. At a press conference this Monday, he assured that “There is no pact between this government and any political organization.”
Jiménez said this when referring to the remarks of three of the five political forces who act in the National Assembly in which Glas’s freedom was given following a supposed pact between the current government and Correismo.
The Christian Social Party (PSC), Democratic Left (ID) and the Pachakutik movement (PK) consider that the release of the former vice president “was agreed” with the validity via decree-law of the Economic Development and Fiscal Sustainability Law.
#RELEASE TO THE COUNTRY ???????? | Four undeniable facts prove the indisputable #COVENANT between President Guillermo Lasso and former President Rafael Correa: pic.twitter.com/wSpb0m7aNM
– The 6 (@La6Ecuador) April 10, 2022
???? ATTENTION | Pact for impunity, attack on citizen honor.#SocialJusticeWithFreedom #SomosID12 pic.twitter.com/Vpn2QFZyKo
— Democratic Left (@ID12Ecuador) April 10, 2022
The Plurinational Unity Movement @ PKnacional18 rejects the judicial provision that grants the writ of Habeas Corpus in favor of the former vice president #Glass who is serving a sentence for crimes once morest #Condition and therefore once morest all Ecuadorians. pic.twitter.com/fDWKuDR53r
– NATIONAL PACHAKUTIK (@PKnacional18) April 10, 2022
Just last night, it was announced that by order of the Presidency of the Republic and the Ministry of Government “the National Service for Prisoners of Liberty (SNAI) will appeal the decision of the judge of Manglaralto (Santa Elena)” .
At today’s press conference, Jiménez also referred to the appeals and argued that there are some irregularities in the Glas case, “first with the jurisdiction used, the credentials of the judge and the procedure carried out. It is around those ideas that the appeal will be raised.”
He recalled that his office has officiated to the SNAI and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior the reinforcement of Glas’s security, because the worst thing that might happen to the country is that he escapes.
Glas, 52, was released thanks to a “habeas corpus” appeal granted on Saturday by Judge Diego Javier Moscoso, of the Multicompetent Unit of Santa Elena, the capital of the coastal province of the same name.
The former vice president, who had been in prison since the end of 2017, was convicted in three corruption cases, one of them for illicit association related to the bribery scheme of the Brazilian company Odebrecht, another for receiving illegal money for his political movement and a third for bribery in a lawsuit related to oil contracts, which is on appeal.
Glas must continue with the pending cases with the Justice and is prevented from leaving the country, as one of the alternative measures to prison.
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Guarded by police and surrounded by supporters, Glas left a prison in the Andean town of Latacunga visibly happy, amid the cries of support and applause from dozens of Correistas who organized a caravan of vehicles to accompany him to the coastal Guayaquil, the city where he lives.
With EFE data
