2024-08-04 02:45:45
On July 9, 2024, the plenary session of the National Assembly heard a document in which Roberto Romero von Buchwald resigned from his position as Superintendent of Banks.
The Superintendency of Banks will remain without a title until, from the Executive a new shortlist is sent to Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (Cpccs) for their designation.
The plenary session of the National Assembly learned today, July 9, 2024, of an official letter with the resignation of Roberto Romero von Buchwald to assume the position of Superintendent of Banks.
Romero was appointed as the first authority of the Superintendency on December 3, 2022 during the administration of the then president of the Cpccs, Hernan Ulloa.
In the document read by the General Secretary of the Assembly, Roberto Romero speaks of the legal obstacles y policies who faced his appointment process, which was marked, he said, by disputes unrelated to the interests and needs of the country.
Roberto Romero was part of a shortlist sent to the Cpccs, on August 5, 2022, by the then President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso to occupy the Superintendency.
Following his appointment on December 3, 2022 by the Cpccs, the then President of Parliament, Virgilio Saquicela, called a session on December 16, 2022, where the second item on the agenda included the inauguration of the new authority. But that plenary session was not held due to lack of quorum.
In the document that was read today in the Legislature, Roberto Romero added that since he was appointed to the position, he developed a project for the financial and banking growth of the Ecuadorbut which was prevented from being implemented “when the new authorities revoked my appointment, which made it clear that I had to make other personal and professional decisions,” he said.
He said it is important to highlight that, subsequently, as is public knowledge, the appointment and inauguration process was involved in a political and legal mess caused by the dismissal of authorities, the interposition of constitutional guarantees, the declaration of nullity of resolutions, among other legal mechanisms and tricks, he pointed out.
According to Romero, this struggle, which is alien to the interests of the people, has caused two years without the Superintendency of Banks having a head who oversees the rights of users of the financial and banking system.
On June 30, 2024, the National Assembly summoned him to be appointed as Superintendent. However, Romero emphasized that 20 months have passed since his appointment, during which time he has taken on new professional challenges that prevent him from assuming the dignity. “For this reason, I am grateful for the appointment and I present my withdrawal from the appointment as the first authority of the Superintendency of Banks,” he added. (SC)
Source: LA HORA newspaper