The presidential advisor, Diana Jácome, assured that Vice President Verónica Abad would be in talks with other political parties and opponents of the Noboa government.
Verónica Abad, vice president of Ecuador, November 28, 2023.
The presidential advisor, Diana Jácome, who in the last elections that Noboa won was a candidate for the PSC along with Jan Topic, spoke on May 31 about the rupture that exists between the president Daniel Noboa and the vice president Verónica Abad.
The distance between the two began to be felt in the campaign for the presidential second round last October.
Jácome said that Abad is ” an enemy supported by political groups, who want to attack the Government and are not thinking about the country.”
“Unfortunately, in recent months we have seen this breakdown, especially giving statements against his Government,” added the official in an interview with FM Mundo radio.
“We know that there are meetings and agreements between them (Abad and parties) to be at the forefront again, and we are not going to allow that, because we have made progress to recover Ecuador.”
Diana Jácome, presidential advisor.
In recent days, Vice President Abad denounced a campaign of harassment by the Noboa government, to, according to her, force her to resign from office.
Family or power?
In another part of the interview, Jácome acknowledged that Vice President Abad is not comfortable in the country to which she was sent, Israel, since December 2023.
Abad traveled to that country as a peace ambassador in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Furthermore, Jácome questioned that Verónica Abad did not travel to Ecuador when her son, Sebastián Barreiro, was imprisoned for alleged corruption in the so-called Nené Case.
“If your son is in prison (…) do you return or do you prefer to stay because you want power?” said President Noboa’s advisor.
And he denied that Sebastián Barreiro’s case had been promoted by the Government.
Barreiro was in La Roca, Ecuador’s maximum-security prison in 2024. He was charged with an alleged offer of influence peddling in the offices of the Vice President.
