2023-05-10 22:15:08
Borrero is the one who should assume the Presidency of Ecuador before the dismissal of Lasso, according to the Constitution. Photo: Vice Presidency of Ecuador.
The Vice Presidency of the Republic confirmed this May 10, 2023 that the Second President, alfredo borrerowill be present at the signing of the Free Trade Agreement with China.
On the night of this Wednesday, a official program in honor of the subscription of the Ecuador-China Free Trade Agreement. The event will take place at the Marriot Hotel in Quito.
The Ministry of Production highlights that the subscription will be a historical landmark. The act will be attended by the Head of State, Guillermo Lassoand among the authorities of his Government will participate borrero.
It is the only public activity on the Vice President’s agenda for this May 10. Did not attend the project drill act with speed, which took place in the morning at the Hospital de Calderón. Carlos Pillajo, Technical Coordinator for Monitoring the Management of the National Health System, participated in the activity.
The subscription event will start from 18:30. From 7:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. there will be a formal meeting for the virtual signing of the agreement. At 8:00 p.m., the Ministers of Production, Julio José Prado; Foreign Relations and Human Mobility, Gustavo Manrique; and the Vice Minister of Foreign Trade, Daniel Legarda, will report the details at a press conference.
At 20:30 there will be a conversation called Opportunities and Challenges of the Ecuador-China Trade Agreement, with the participation of Lasso.
The figure of Borrero resonates in the political landscape because it would correspond to him assume Lasso’s position if he is removed with impeachment.
According to the article 146 of the Constitution, in case of definitive lack of the President of the Republic, the will replace who exercises the Vice Presidency for the time remaining to complete the corresponding presidential term.
But in the face of simultaneous and definitive absence in the Presidency and in the Vice-Presidency of the Republic, the holder of the National Assembly will assume temporarily The presidency. And within 48 eight hours, the National Electoral Council must call an election for said positions. Those who are elected will exercise their functions until the end of the period.
Alfredo Borrero’s position
In his last interview with an international medium, the China Global Television Network (CGTN), Borrero spoke about the political situation facing the Government.
It is important that in any democracy there is a opposition prosecuted in objectives of the country, not personal interests, he said in the interview that was broadcast on May 5.
Borrero there recalled that, given the scenario that Lasso cannot exercise power due to dismissal, the succession corresponds to the Vice President. “That must be respect it and it has to be given. But let’s hope that doesn’t exist,” she expressed.
“The future is unpredictable, let’s wait, if the future comes to that situation we will have to take up the challenge that is imposed on us,” he said.
Viviana Veloz, a correísmo assembly member and proponent of the trial of Lasso, said in a Guayaquil digital media this Wednesday that she does not trust Borrero but that the constitutional succession is clear. “We hope there will be learned from mistakesmistakes, the lack of being able to build governability, that it does not break the bridges of dialogue like Lasso again, ”he said.
Meanwhile, in the Assembly, the applicants for the Presidency of the Legislature. This Wednesday the bench of Pachakutik announced to Sofia Sanchez as his candidate for that position.
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