The general commanders of the National Police and the Armed Forces of Ecuador They voted together this Sunday in the referendum summoned by the president Daniel Noboa to move forward constitutional and legislative reforms that strengthen the fight against drug trafficking and corruption, as well as to attract investments and create jobs.
Although in Ecuador voting is optional for police and military personnel, The top officials of the Police, César Zapata, and the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Jaime Vela, came together to cast their respective votes for a plebiscite where a good part of the eleven questions have to do with state forces.
The main one is the possibility for the Armed Forces to permanently support the Police in their operations against organized crime gangs without the need to issue states of exception for this purpose.
Likewise, Ecuadorians vote on this day whether to appoint the Armed Forces to control access to prisons, the epicenter of the crisis of violence that the country is experiencing, many of them dominated by criminal gangs until a few months ago, when Noboa militarized the prisons. prisons and seized large quantities of weapons and explosives that the prisoners kept inside.
Another issue of the popular consultation related to state forces is the creation of a specific crime of possession and carrying of weapons for the exclusive use of the Police and Armed Forces.
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Likewise, it has also been put to the choice of Ecuadorians whether the weapons seized from criminals are used to equip police and military agents.
On the same ballot there are questions to increase sentences for crimes related to organized crime and to eliminate prison benefits for those convicted of some of these same crimes.
Also to allow the extraditions of Ecuadorians required by the Justice of other countries and to facilitate the process of expropriation of assets of illicit origin.
On the other hand, the Government has proposed creating a court system in constitutional matters, recognizing international arbitrations in any jurisdiction, as a way to encourage the arrival of foreign investment; and the legalization of temporary and hourly contracts, with the idea that this can encourage job creation. EFE
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