2024-07-29 22:13:39
The Plenary Session of the National Assembly made several calls to the Government regarding: the issuance of the General Regulations to the Health Career Law; the request to extend the forgiveness of BanEcuador debts up to 10,000 dollars; and, regarding the priority and timely attention to migrants, especially on the Mexican border, regarding the Ecuadorian family that was reported kidnapped in that nation.
With 95 affirmative votes, the Executive is required to comply with the preparation of the General Regulations of the Health Career Law, since more than 20 months have passed since it was approved and published in the Official Registry. It also urged the Executive to comply with and establish the technical standard that sets the different functional ranks and remuneration of the different career levels, according to the existing budgetary availability; and to comply with all the provisions of the aforementioned law. In response to this, the assembly members of the Government bench abstained.
Legislator Camilo Salinas, who proposed the resolution, said that it has been a struggle for more than 20 years to have a regulation that guarantees the practice of professionals in the health system. Meanwhile, Dr. Carlos Cárdenas, on behalf of the health workers, in a general commission, assured that it is essential to issue the regulation, with a technical and independent system to regulate the mechanisms of entry, permanence and promotions in the health career.
Likewise, with 76 affirmative votes, the President of the Republic was urged, in use of his powers and faculties conferred by article 207.1 of the Monetary and Financial Organic Code, to extend the forgiveness of coercive credits in the enforcement phase and rated with risk “E”, to those that reach the sum of 10,000 dollars, as well as those owed to all public banks, including entities in the process of liquidation. The Transparency Commission was delegated to monitor Decree 317, of July 2, 2024, so that within 90 days it presents to the Plenary a detailed report on its application. The ADN bloc voted against.
Mónica Salazar, the author of the resolution, justified her request by referring to the bankruptcy of small and medium-sized producers, caused by public banks, which use their coercive capacity in an implacable manner.
Finally, with the support of 89 legislators, the Plenary urged the National Government to carry out all diplomatic efforts with the Mexican Government, in order to provide timely assistance to the Ecuadorian family reported as kidnapped in that country, on June 28, 2024, and to comply with the provisions of articles 8 and 21 of the Organic Law on Human Mobility, in order to provide efficient and timely care to people in a condition of human mobility and their families.
He also requested that a detailed report be submitted on the actions taken to support the Ecuadorians kidnapped in Mexican territory and the emergency protocols that have been implemented to deal with these cases.
Assemblyman Jorge Miranda, proponent of the resolution, recounted the harsh conditions that Ecuadorians live in as human migrants, not only on the border with Mexico and the United States, but in other parts of the world. In this regard, he stressed that after the break in relations with Mexico, following the raid on the Embassy of that country in Ecuador, the problem is even greater, due to the lack of diplomatic representation of our country in Mexico. In response to this initiative, the Government Assemblymen also voted against it.
Source: Radio Huancavilca