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Lenin Moreno requested the resignation of his entire cabinet, while the Minister of Education criticized the 2019 budget
Posted On 23 Nov 2018
Ecuadornews:
President Lenin Moreno requested the night of this Thursday, the resignation of all his ministerial cabinet, as announced by the National Secretariat of Communication, through a statement posted on his Twitter account at 23:16.
“An evaluation process will be carried out during the last weeks of 2018 and the results will be made official to the citizens in due course,” the statement said.
COMUNICADO | Sobre la solicitud de renuncia a todo el gabinete ministerial. pic.twitter.com/actjjeUSji
— Comunicación Ecuador (@ComunicacionEc) 23 de noviembre de 2018
Resignation Minister of Education
One of the prime ministers who put his resignation at the disposal of the chief executive on the night of this Thursday was the Education minister, Fander Falconí.
In a letter addressed to Moreno, Falconí noted that “after having completed one year six months of satisfactory work within the Ministry of Education, I present my irrevocable resignation to the position of Minister of Education,which I have held since May 24, 2017″.
“In doing so, I reiterate my deepest gratitude for having trusted me and for havin galways supported those of us who work for Ecuadorian education … Our ‘AllABC’ campaign has allowed the return to the classrooms of 171,000 students who had abandoned their For the new phase of the program we have 100 thousand additional registrants “, adds the resignation letter.
Falconí stressed that “we have reopened hundreds of cases of sexual abuse that had been shelved, with our slogan of Zero Tolerance and the firm purpose of making schools safe, free of violence.”
Al cortar fondos para la educación, se ataca a toda la sociedad, en especial a la niñez y a la adolescencia. Lo más grave es que destruye el futuro del país.
— Fander Falconí (@fanderfalconi) 23 de noviembre de 2018
On Thursday night, the renouncing Minister of Education had criticized, through his Twitter account, the recent decisions of the government regarding the supposed cuts in the educational field presented in the budget pro forma of2019.
“By cutting funds for education, the whole society is attacked … The most serious thing is that it destroys the future of the country,” he wrote at 10:41this Thursday. (I)
