It appears Correa has the police on his side, this is turning into a three ring circus:
eluniverso.com | 11h03
Congress will have new session the next Tuesday.
Demonstrators arrived from early east Thursday at the outskirts from the National Congress in Quito to support the resolution of the Electoral Supreme Court to dismiss 57 deputies.
March 08, 2007
Shortly after 10:30 and after certifying it is present at them of hardly 28 deputies, the president of the Congress, the prianista Jorge Cevallos, closed the session.
To the time to congratulate to the women by the Day of the Woman, it insisted to the parts to reach an agreement and to obtain La Paz in the country. “We are going to engage in a dialog and to yield if it is necessary”, it said.
Cevallos summoned to the new parliamentary session for the day Tuesday 13 of March. 51 legislators are needed to install a session, is this ordinary or extraordinary one.
Previously in the morning, when entering to the plenary session of the parliament, to 10:08, Cevallos had said that it would install the session of this Thursday if the prescribed quorum for the session existed. In the exteriors of the Congress, the presence of proconstiuyente some thirty legislators existed, who hoped the entrance of Cevallos to accompany it in the session.
Cevallos said in City Radio that “the Congress has not received officially any communication of destitution on the part of the TSE, reason why it will continue working with normality”.
For that reason its decision to enter to state the number of parliamentary representatives. He assured that when has documents that make official the situation, it will take measures.
With respect to the 57 dismissed legislators, he knows himself that they are reunited in a capital hotel, analyzing the resolution of the Electoral Supreme Court who yesterday removed them of the position and that in addition cleared the political rights to them by a year.
Police safekeeping
The entrance and the environs of the building where the National Congress works, amanecieron surrounded by cash of the Police, to prevent the passage of the 57 deputies who were dismissed yesterday by the Electoral Supreme Court (TSE).
More than 250 police they surround the seat of the National Congress, located in the old building of the Central bank of Ecuador (BCE) to prevent the passage of the dismissed deputies. Inclusively metallic fences have been placed.
The uniformed ones which they are to the entrance of the parqueadero, by the Briceño street, and in the main street of the legislative seat (reconciled Ten of August) and in the street Santa Prisca, have their hands the lists of the 57 parliamentarians removed by TSE, stops to avoid that they enter, informed Citynoticias (89,3 FM in Guayaquil).
While, 80 members of the legislative escort maintain protected the interiors of the Parliament.
The resolution of TSE occurred a day after the group of parliamentarians decided the destitution of the president of the electoral being, by to have summoned to the popular consultation.
59 deputies yesterday made a call in political opinion to four of the vowels of the Court by he himself reason.
But some hours later, a majority of TSE (four vowels) solved to stop in its functions to 57 deputies interfering with the electoral process.
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