President Noboa loses majority in Congress due to assault on the Mexican Embassy – Diario La Página – 2024-04-09 06:49:36

The 51 legislators of the Citizen Revolution party (RC) will join the opposition in the National Assembly of Ecuador in protest of the police operation in which former vice president Jorge Glas, who took refuge in the Mexican Embassy in Quito and who had been detained, has been arrested. granted political asylum.

The former presidential candidate and leader of RC, Luisa González, called for the resignation of President Daniel Noboa. «Invading an embassy is attacking foreign soil. “It is declaring war on a country and it is done at the whim of a president without reason or justification.”he pointed out, according to the newspaper El Universo.

The vice president of the National Assembly and spokesperson for the RC parliamentary group, Viviana Velozalso expressed his “strong rejection” of the detention of Glas against the Vienna Convention and the right of diplomatic asylum and proclaim his “total opposition” to the government.

In addition, RC will request the immediate convening of a session of the National Assembly, which is in recess until April 9, to ask about Glas’s arrest and his subsequent transfer to a prison in Guayaquil. They will thus request the appearance of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gabriela Sommerfeld.

The Ecuadorian president, Daniel Noboa, had reached a legislative agreement with Revolución Ciudadana, the Social Christian Party (PSC) and his own party, National Democratic Action (ADN) to have a majority in the National Assembly and thus approve five urgent economic laws. in the first quarter of the government period, but the operation against Glas ended that pact.

Between RC, PSC, ADN and some independents they far exceeded the 92 votes necessary to achieve the majority in a chamber, made up of 139 seats, but RC’s change of position represents a reversal of the situation.