President Guillermo Lasso is not considering resorting to “crusader death” at the moment, a figure contemplated in the national Constitution that allows the president to dissolve the National Assembly (Parliament) in exchange for governing with decrees until early general elections are held.
This was stated this Monday by presidential adviser and spokesman Carlos Jijón at a press conference, in which he was asked about the possibility that the Government would take the path of “crusading death” after the opposition pulled it down in the Legislative the Investment Law, a normative project emblematic of his management.
“Cross death is a constitutional tool of last resort, when there is a serious political crisis that threatens the institutional framework. The Government considers that this moment has not been reached and that it has sufficient tools to continue governing and fight against corruption,” said Jijón.
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“Cross death is finally in the hands of the National Assembly. If the Assembly incurs in a destabilizing act or one that seriously and irremediably threatens institutionality and democracy, the Government has in its hand the tool of crossed death”, he detailed.
Jijón pointed out that the Executive has not yet evaluated whether it will take the Investment Law to popular consultation as well as the labor reform that it also wants to promote, since on the former it cannot resubmit a legislative initiative on the same matter before Parliament until after a anus.
“This is the saddest thing about it. The possibility of discussing and agreeing on a law that allows investments that generate two million jobs has been closed to the country. Legislators who voted against the bill have to answer to public opinion and history,” he asserted.
The vote on the Investment Law showed the difficulty that Lasso, with a conservative tendency, has in carrying out the main lines of his mandate in Parliament, since he is in a clear minority in the Assembly, dominated by the center-left.
With the Investment Law, the ruler hoped to attract some 30,000 million dollars in sectors such as oil, mining, energy, telecommunications and infrastructure, where projects would be carried out under the public-private partnership scheme, which he wanted to give a strong push.