Vice President Verónica Abad will be denounced for alleged electoral violation

Juan Esteban Guarderas, counselor of the Cpccs, is preparing a complaint against vice president Verónica Abad and two other politicians.

The vice president of the Republic, Verónica Abad, will be denounced for an alleged infraction in the last electoral campaign by the member of the Citizen Participation Council (Cpccs), Juan Esteban Guarderas.

Guarderas called a press conference for this Thursday, May 16, 2024, to announce the reasons, but it emerged on social networks that this will be considered an alleged early campaign in the 2023 elections, when she was elected in tandem with the now president. of the Republic, Daniel Noboa.

The complaint will also include the coordinator of Pachakutik and former candidate for the Prefecture of Pichincha, Guillermo Churuchumbi , and Francisco Suárez Abril, who was a candidate for the Prefecture of Tungurahua for the Democratic Left.

Guarderas has filed complaints of this type against the mayor of Quito, Pabel Muñoz, whom the TCE fined USD 9,200 and forced him to offer a public apology for campaigning for former Correismo candidate Luisa González in the early elections.

Abad had indicated this week that President Noboa wants her out of office but assured that she will not resign. Thus, she would temporarily assume the Presidency when Noboa must run for re-election in the next elections in 2025.

“Today they want to remove me completely,” Abad said in an interview with the newspaper La Hora, where he had anticipated a complaint against him in the Contentious Electoral Tribunal (TCE).

Abad, whom Noboa sent as ambassador to Tel Aviv to mediate for peace in Gaza, which highlighted a rift that had already existed since the electoral campaign, stated that “the harassment and mistreatment has been very clear.”

She considered that the arrest of her son Sebastián Barreiro for an alleged case of influence peddling in the offices of the Vice President is part of that harassment that she denounces.

Meanwhile, in reference to media reports on social networks that the United States had revoked Vice President Abad’s visa, the Embassy spokesperson told PRIMICIAS: “Visa records are reserved according to US law; Therefore, the United States Embassy and Consulate does not comment on individual cases.