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This Saturday Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa called “traitors and opportunists” to the members of the parliament and officials who separated from the government for opposing his proposed referendum to amend the law. “For the unfair, the opportunists, traitors, our...

This morning several assembly members and officials from Alianza País will separate from the party because they disagree with the referendum questions written by the Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa. “Ruptura de los 25” will formalize the announcement at a pres...

Founder of Alianza País, Manuela Gallegos, assured “the fundamentals of the party are bi diverted.” Many of the separations that are happening in the party are due to the referendum questions because those “go against the constitution,” which was largely...

Yesterday, the former constituent Marcos Martinez summoned several former assembly members to discuss a draft, which contains arguments and facts of why there are certain rules laid down in the Constitution given that “it was a collective work, hundreds of thousands of...

Today, the Civic board of Guayaquil presented a legal protection resource beside the Court of Guayas in order to stop the questions qualification process for the referendum, because the popular consultation promoted by President Rafael Correa “violates the constitutional...

This Thursday, it was confirmed that the Constitutional Court decided to suspend the mandate revocation process all over the country, eight of nine of the members voted in favor of the resolution. Consequently, there is no effect on the processing of office presidenc...

Yesterday, Assemblywoman Betty Amores announced her separation from Alianza País Movement. Her resignation was caused by her disagreement with the referendum called by the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, because according to her it violates eight fundamental principles of the...

Legislator Cesar García, who represents the province of Esmeraldas in the National Assembly, is the second member to separate from the political block PAIS in less than 24 hours. He said the referendum promoted by the Government is one of the reasons that led him to this...

Attorney Washington Pesántez denied all accusations made by the assemblywoman Betty Amores and said that he was never consulted about the contents for the referendum promoted by the Executive branch. Pesántez rejected Amores’ statements accusing him of having participated in the...

Yesterday the Human Rights Watch association (HRW) expressed its concern about the several accusations in Ecuador against demonstrators. In the country, “at least dozen protests and demonstrations participants have been prosecuted or investigated for excessive charges of...