The National Democratic Action Alliance (ADN) y Pachakutik (PK) joined the Christian Social Party (PSC) Now Build to leave the Correísta bloc alone in its attempt to include controversial reforms to the Comprehensive Criminal Organic Code (COIP). Correismo’s intention was to ensure that executory convictions were reviewed, to force the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) to deliver confidential information and archive previous investigations whose crimes have not yet prescribed.
The refusal of the four parties occurs almost a week after the Plenary of the National Assembly could not speak out in favor of the reforms, nor approve them in the second debate, and that Henry Kronfle (PSC), president of the Assembly, was forced to suspend the session.
The reinstatement of the session to address the issue already has a date. Kronfle He called after 8:00 p.m. on February 19 for the continuation of the plenary session at 11:00 a.m. on February 22.
No to impunity
The block Pachakutik y ADNwhich since February 15 had been cautious in the face of Correísta’s attempt, ruled out any possibility of opening the door to a review of convictions.
“There are reforms that we do not support, because our agenda has never been impunity,” he said. Ines Alarcon (ADN).
Mariana Yumbay (PK) indicated that these issues will affect Justice and go against Construction. “Justice needs total independence, we will not support impunity, nor meddling in Justice, nor will we support the denaturalization of the review resource; The complaints that are in the Prosecutor’s Office must have their end, they cannot be archived,” he indicated.
Dallyana Passailaigue (PSC) y Paul Buestán (Build) agreed that the Assembly cannot request unviable and unconstitutional proposals.
Buestan He expressed that when a plenary session is called, they will remain with the archiving motion, in case the necessary corrections have not been made to the original text.
Gissella Garzón (Citizen revolution) did not rule out that the report returns to the Justice Commission and proceeds to a new draft. “The other possibility (is that the process) takes more time,” he said, indicating that he hopes that this does not hinder the rest of the reforms that are included in the Penal Code. Among them, adjustments to increase penalties for crimes against life and those that affect the efficiency of the State.
The bill also proposes that the maximum penalty for hitmen be raised to 26 to 30 years; for the crime of terrorism to 13 to 18 years, and that organized crime be punished with up to 13 years, compared to the current ten years.
Legislators will also decide on the possible elimination of prison benefits for those who commit serious crimes, such as homicide, femicide, hitmen, crimes against freedom (kidnapping), extortion, migrant trafficking and large-scale drug trafficking.
‘You will not be able to access the review resource’
In accordance with The time, Diana SalazarAttorney General of the State, stated on February 18, 2024, in a television program, that the Bribery casefor which the former president was convicted Rafael Correa to eight years in prison, will not be able to access the appeal for review proposed in the reforms of the COIP in the Assembly.
According to him, there is no evidence that refutes the accusations made by the Prosecutor’s Office in 2019. One of the evidence in the case is the testimony of people close to Correawho revealed the activities done by him and Jorge Glas in the offices of the Presidency of the Republic, indicated Salazar.
For the Prosecutor, the reforms proposed to the COIP They would be a form of help in favor of impunity from political sectors in the Assembly. “They are trying to cook up an a la carte law that only seeks to benefit a person, with a first and last name, whose only objective has been to annul their sentences for more than five years,” said the prosecutor.
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