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Retirees seek to submit law on the IESS
Posted On 12 Oct 2015
Image: El Universo
With the backing of at least 30,000 signatures, the front of IESS Retirees wants to drive in the Assembly a reform to the laws of Social Security and the Bank of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (BIESS).
Through alternate Assemblyman Henry Llanes (CREO), adviser of the Front, they initiated the process in the National Electoral Council (CNE) to get the form to record the signatures.
Section 103 of the Constitution defines it as a form of “direct democracy” of citizens to “propose the creation, amendment or repeal of regulations before the Legislative Branch.”
The section specifies that they must be supported by not less than 0.25% of the people registered on the electoral register “of the relevant jurisdiction.”
