Minister Ivonne Núñez filed a personal complaint against Rafael Correa, for his statements after the assault on the Mexican Embassy in Quito. And in the lawsuit, she asks for the suspension of the former president’s social media accounts.
Former president Rafael Correa and the United Left MEP, Manu Pineda, at a press conference in the European Parliament, on April 9, 2024.
The Minister of Labor, Ivonne Núñez, announced on Thursday that she presented a lawsuit against former President Rafael Correa to the State Attorney General’s Office for “treason against the country.”
The complaint comes in the midst of the diplomatic storm between Ecuador and Mexico over the arrest of Jorge Glas, Correa’s former vice president, in a police assault on the Mexican embassy in Quito.
And this April 12, Núñez referred to the content of his complaint in an interview with the Teleamazonas channel.
“I hope that the Prosecutor’s Office quickly begins the investigation prior to the reported event, because inciting the Gulf of Guayaquil to be closed cannot be considered freedom of expression,” said Minister Núñez, regarding one of Correa’s statements. , after the raid on the Embassy.
In his interview, Núñez avoided directly naming Correa and referred to him as the ‘reported subject’ , and whose accusations against Ecuador and the government “could not be considered freedom of expression.”
But what can the Prosecutor’s Office do if Correa resides in Belgium? According to Núñez, his complaint requests the suspension of the former president’s social media accounts, where Correa said that he “instills fear and panic in Ecuadorian citizens.”
In fact, very active on social networks, Correa launches frequent attacks against the government of Daniel Noboa and provides information about Glas’s arrest, such as announcing an alleged suicide attempt in prison.
“This has not been presented as a propaganda act, it is necessary to recover peace,” said Núñez, ruling out that his judicial complaint is due to an electoral strategy for the popular consultation on April 21.
For his part, Correa responded on the social network
The crime of treason, argued in the Minister’s complaint, is punishable by up to 13 years in prison in Ecuador.
