The majority of the National Assembly of Ecuador resolved to remove its president Guadalupe Llorifirst indigenous woman to reach the position, for “breach of duty” by not having given way in previous sessions to motions in which the requests for dismissal against him should be dealt with. Llori, of the fractious Pachakutik indigenous partywill also continue to serve as an assembly member while the presidency of Parliament was in charge of the independent deputy and until now second vice president of the Chamber, Virgilio Saquicela.
With 81 opposition votes, the plenary session of Parliament resolved to remove Llori from the leadership of Congress, made up of 137 assembly members. Representative of the Amazonian province of Orellana, Llori had been appointed as president of the Assembly on May 15 of last year and since then she has supported the management of Guillermo Lasso, which caused problems for her in her own Pachakutik parliamentary group, now divided into two antagonistic factions.
The Minister of Government, Francisco Jiménez, described this Wednesday as an “arbitrary act” and “illegal” the dismissal of the parliamentarian. The complaint against Llori assures that the until now president of the Assembly would have failed to comply with articles 129 and 140 of the Legislative Lawlinked to the necessary procedures to request an appeal to the presidency and convene plenary sessions.