Lawmakers in Ecuador voted to open an impeachment trial against President Guillermo Lasso, one of the few remaining conservative heads of state in South America, setting off a potential political crisis. Lasso, accused of embezzlement, denies wrongdoing.
Lawmakers in Ecuador voted Tuesday to open an impeachment trial against President Guillermo Lasso, one of the few remaining conservative heads of state in South America, setting off a potential political crisis.Lasso, who is accused of embezzlement, is the first president to be sent to such proceedings since the country’s return to democracy in 1979. He has denied wrongdoing; a legislative oversight commission has recommended against impeachment.
If that happens, the country’s largest Indigenous federation says, it will launch mass protests — the“This is the biggest irony,” said Will Freeman, a fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. It was Lasso’s ideological rival, leftist former president Rafael Correa, who wrote the muerte cruzada “as a way to bully” the assembly and “make sure he couldn’t be impeached.”But now it’s Correa’s party that would suffer if the assembly were dissolved, Freeman said.
“There’s no proof of that either,” Lasso said in a public speech. “Where’s the evidence? There is none.” The legislative oversight commission concluded last week that there was no evidence to show that Lasso knew about the contracts, and that he did not promote signing a new deal with the private company. The commission recommended against impeaching him.
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