The 57 ousted congressmen went to the OAS for intervention into Correa's decision to oust them. They did not have any luck, here is the OAS response that endorses the referendum process to vote on a constituent assembly. For those that don't follow the politics in ecuador "Strap" is a reference to Correa's party.
From eldiario.com:
O.A.S. endorses to Strap in the process by the Component
The Organization of American States (O.A.S.) today expressed their endorsement to the efforts of the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, “to take ahead the constitutional process”.
The Secretary General of the O.A.S., the Chilean Jose Miguel Insulza, declared that as much his office as the Permanent Council are concerned with the events that are developing in Ecuador.
When declaring the support of the regional forum, the ex- chancellor of Chile said that the constitutional process that Strap is committed to is to end the chronic instability that has affected Ecuador in the last decades.
In this sense, Insulza I affirm that the O.A.S. considers that the Referendum of the 15 of next April requested by the Ecuadorian governor, “constitutes a fundamental landmark in this process of institutional recovery”.
It added that the general secretariat of the Pan-American organization has decided to accept the invitation formulated by the Electoral Supreme Court (TSE) to the O.A.S., to observe these elections.
Insulza commented that it seems fundamental to him that to this process all the political and social sectors concur, in an atmosphere of tranquillity and concord, indispensable for the success of this process.
It formulated a call to the institutions involved “in the critical Ecuadorian recent events”, to participate in the efforts of normalization of the country.
This, emphasized, with the objective to fortify the democracy and to open space to the constitutional changes “that the sister Republic of Ecuador requires for her democratic Pacific development." |
