Another crazy day in Ecuador, it seems through this translation that 10 of the punted legislators tried to enter the National Congress and a battle broke out with the police.
Congress has now been suspended until March 20th, at that time Correa hopes to have substitutes in place so congress will have enough bodies to function.
Meanwhile ARU releases relatively positive results. Those that think this political turmoil has nothing to do with the SP are not playing with a full deck. (You know who you are)
We are below the 200 day mda and there is no bottom insight. I guess some solace can be taken in the fact that the entire sector was down today. ARU has not been taking part in the rebounds as of late though.
Here is the article:
Date: Portoviejo, 13-03-2007 Source: Eldiario.com .ec
The political chaos in Ecuador breaks out again.
The intensity of a group of legislators to want to enter the National Congress to sesionar, caused confrontations that left like results four wounded people.
Two deputies, a police and a partisan of the dismissed ones were with wounded from the altercation, the most serious injury to legislator Hugo Romero, who fell from a wall when trying to enter in the seat of the Legislative one, according to the police.
Competing deputy Sylka Sanchez, of Institutional the Renovador Party of Acción Nacional (PRIAN), accused the police of attacking them.
This was denied by the legislative convoy commodore, colonel Jorge Cave, that it accused, as well, to the stopped congressmen, the week last “to interfere” with the process of popular consultation to restore a Constituent Assembly, to want to enter to force a delay.
The deputy and vice-president of the Congress, Edison Chávez, of Partido Sociedad Patriótica (PSP), also dismissed by TSE, appeared in the street with a patch in the eye and assured that she had been attacked by the police.
Incidents
The incidents began early, when ten deputies of the PRIAN and the PSP tried to break through an encirclement of police that guarded one of the lateral accesses of the legislative enclosure.
After almost one hour of struggle, the police allowed that the dismissed legislators arrived soon until an external patio from the enclosure and at the hall the plenary session, by order of president, Jorge Cevallos, also of the PRIAN, but that is not in the list of the 57 stopped by TSE.
They suspend session
The head of the parliament officially suspended the session, , after taking complaints from the terminated congressmen, which was criticized by other opposite congressmen to that their colleagues return.
In the room of the plenary session, where list went to the deputies, they were present 24, including Cevallos, which in any case did not allow to install the session, since a quorum of 51 is required, half plus one of the 100 members of the camera.
They accuse the Government
To the shout of “dictatorship no, democracy yes”, the dismissed ones accused the government of the leftist president, Rafael Correa, of being the cause of the “chaos” and the “institutional rupture” in the country, after labeling as “inconstitucional” their ceases on the part of TSE.
Deputies dismissed that was inside the Congress, and who in principle announced that to only they would remove “deads them”, had to evacuate the enclosure aceleradamente, to avoid to be reached about hundreds of demonstrators who congregated themselves in the outskirts of the legislative seat.
The TC said no
The Constitutional Court announced in the morning that he did not admit to give proceeding to the request of the president of the Congress to dissolve the conflict between Legislative and TSE, originated by the call of the consultation.
Cevallos requested to the TC to lapse the resolution of the Congress in which it replaced the president of the TSE, Jorge Acosta, and the later one of the electoral organ in whom 57 deputies of the groups of most of the Legislative one were dismissed, opposed to the government.
“To call to the substitutes”
On the other hand the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, expressed his malaise by the violent events, at the same time that its endorsement to the destitution of the 57 legislators ratified.
The agent chief executive expressed his hope of which the Congress resumes its work the sooner, summoning the substitute legislators, who also will form a competing majority, but hopefully “rational and reasonable, that is fitted to the Constitution and the laws”.
A competing majority “that does not try to impose its will illegally, because is not going here to accept dictatorships of any species”, added Strap. |
