2023-12-16 08:07:31
One year after the constitutional referendum in February, Ecuador will have a new consultation. The president of the country, Daniel Noboa, has revealed that between the last week of February 2024 and the first week of March the plebiscite that he seeks to call would be held to put several key reforms of his Government plan to consultation.
In statements to journalists on a visit to the city of Guayaquil, Noboa also anticipated this Friday that this popular consultation will have twelve to fourteen questions, focused on “the procedure of action of the Armed Forces, the reform of the judicial system and elements of generation of employment and human dignity”.
The Executive wants to accelerate the processing of a series of measures that it considers urgent
If held in the last week of February, the plebiscite would be held within the first hundred days of his mandate, as was his intention once he announced it when he won the presidential elections.
With this, the head of state seeks to accelerate the processing of a series of measures that he considers urgent within a short term of just a year and a half that he has ahead of him, after having assumed office on November 23.
The questions raised by the Noboa administration must first go through the analysis of the Constitutional Court, which will validate whether they can be the subject of the consultation or not.
His predecessor, Lasso, called a similar consultation in which he suffered a setback
In February of this year, his predecessor in office, Guillermo Lasso, called a popular consultation with similar characteristics where he suffered a serious setback, as Ecuadorian voters voted overwhelmingly against the proposed measures.
In his case, Lasso raised his plebiscite on security, democratic institutions and the environment, in which he consulted the population about the possibility of allowing the extradition of Ecuadorians wanted by other countries for drug trafficking and organized crime.
It also proposed reducing the number of members of the National Assembly (Parliament) and reducing the power of the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS), a body in charge of appointing the authorities of different State institutions.
Likewise, he wanted to include a question to allow the support of the Armed Forces to the Police without the need to declare states of exception, but this was excluded by the Constitutional Court considering that the reform of the Constitution in this regard should be processed through a bill in the Assembly.
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