2024-04-25 10:26:16
New requirements to be an assembly member will arrive in the first debate at the Plenary Session of Parliament.
The Occasional Commission on Constitutional Amendments approved the report with five votes and the first discussion of this reform, which has the endorsement of the Constitutional Court, is now pending.
The objective is to amend article 119 of the Constitution. Currently, the Magna Carta states: “To be an assembly member, it will be necessary to have Ecuadorian nationality, to have reached eighteen years of age at the time of registration of the candidacy and to be in enjoyment of political rights.
The amendment makes two changes. The first is to add the need for known probity, experience, training or justified education.
However, for this to be verifiable, it is proposed to include another paragraph. This text would include: “to comply with what is established in the previous paragraph, the law will establish the verification mechanism, within which affirmative actions will be taken into account.”
“The objective of the amendment is to make a readjustment to the requirements to be an assembly member, with the purpose of crystallizing the suitability of the candidates who aspire to access this position of popular representation, without implying any type of discrimination,” The Assembly stated in a statement issued yesterday, Saturday, March 23, 2024.
The president of the commission, Otto Vera (PSC) recalled that several contributions were received that will improve the representation of the Assembly. Furthermore, this must be complemented with the reform of the Code of Democracy.