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The Commission on Citizen Participation plans to approve today the amendments to the Organic Law of the Legislative Branch. Among them is one that generates displeasure: an assemblyman with 40% of non-attendance at plenary sessions will be dismissed. Esta iniciativa es de la...

Reports from the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) of the Ecuadorian labor market -which reflects a fall in unemployment between March and June this year- have had changes, “without prior notice or discussion.” Byron Villacis, who served from 2007 to...

Posters of State suppliers asking their late payments of 2015 and 2016 or warning they are close to bankruptcy filled, two weeks ago, the ground floor of the Ministry of Finance and the Carondelet Palace. They were joined, these days, by universities denouncing outstanding...

Former President Alfredo Palacios spoke with daily Expreso about his relationship with Rafael Correa, whom he promoted in politics and succeeded him on April 15, 2007. Palacios recalls that he proposed a change in the oil funds. “And I started, after that, to accept...

The National Audit office ordered the initiation of a special examination process of personnel selection as well as the payment of their salaries for the period between January 1st and June 30, 2016 in the Institute of Higher National studies (IAEN). Comptroller General Carlos...

The Fourth World Cocoa Summit will be held next month, but there is already talk of a business projection that would exceed $ 16 million. Anecacao president Juan Pablo Zuniga is convinced that in a short time Ecuador will will be second or third in the international ranking of...

  The National Communications Secretariat (SECOM), ordered the Ecuavisa channel to broadcast a half an hour presidential speech, at 22:30 today, the same schedule in which the investigative program Vision 360, hosted by journalist Tania Tinoco, is usually broadcast. The...

President Rafael Correa reiterated that believing that doing whathever you want with your own money “is completely immoral.” Correa referred to the referendum raised to the Constitutional Court to prohibit that public officials, including those of popular election,...

  The Alianza PAIS (AP) movement continues today in Guayaquil its “door to door” affiliation campaign, which began last Saturday. It is called ‘Revolutionary Country Plan,’ and last week drew criticism by the presence of representatives of state...

The National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) receives until today the affiliations and support signatures of the national and provincial political organizations that want a place in the 2017 elections. At the moment there are 159 registered political...