2024-04-15 15:09:42
“With a mixture of joy and nostalgia”the legislator Pierina Correa On Tuesday, March 26, 2024, he received the presidential sash that his brother, Rafael Correahe had given as a donation to the Carondelet Museum, once his term ended in May 2017.
The assembly member of the Citizen Revolution movement (RC) showed through a post in his X account a photograph of the tape he received in a wooden chest.
“With a mixture of joy and nostalgia, I received the presidential sash from my brother, @MashiRafael, a president who did so much for #Ecuador and who promoted the transformation of our country. “Long live #Ecuador, long live the #CitizenRevolution. Until victory always!” wrote Pierina.
In a video she narrates that the delivery took place at the presidential palace in Quito.
According to an official letter issued on February 6, 2024 by Rafael Correa, from Brussels (Belgium), where he is a political asylum, the former president authorized his sister, Pierina, who is his “General Representative in Ecuador.” , to receive the presidential sash in his name.
In the document, the former ruler assures that they informed him of the intention to return the presidential sash.
“As is public knowledge, once my presidential term ended in May 2017, I handed over my presidential sash so that, along with other objects, it became part of the Carondelet Museum, which, unfortunately, was dismantled due to hatred and no longer exists. ”.
The Carondelet Museum was located in the lower south wing of the Government Palace, had eleven rooms and was inaugurated in May 2017, according to a review in the Presidency website.
“According to data from the Directorate of Cultural Management of the Presidency, the president (Correa) has received nearly 11,000 gifts, the same ones that were used for the creation of the Cultural Property Reserve, which was valued at more than 2 million Dollars. 82.1% of these gifts are national presents and 17.8% are international. Of all the gifts, 35% were books and publications which were reported to have been donated to the University of the Arts and the Institute of Higher National Studies (IAEN),” states a note published on the institutional portal on those dates.
And report on the inspection process on the Carondelet Museum, prepared by the Transparency, Citizen Participation and Social Control Commission of the National Assembly, indicates that Currently, this museum does not exist and is rather a traveling exhibition. which the Presidency of the Republic has set up in three rooms.
“With the visit on site We were able to verify that there was not a dismantling but a dismantling, because now the eleven rooms no longer exist. Those who wish to go see, today there are divisions of gypsum where cubicles have been made to be offices, when from what I know an investment was made thinking about a museum,” described the Citizen Revolution (RC) assembly member Franklin Samaniego.
By: KCH