In 42 days of office, the President of the Republic, Daniel Noboa, put aside his conciliatory spirit and attacked his detractors, especially María Paula Romo, whom he compared to a Pokémon.
Composure is gone. The President of the Republic, Daniel Noboa, renounced the political truce that he promoted in the campaign and He took out his discomfort against his adversaries politicians who have questioned his management, especially his proposal for a popular consultation.
Noboa He arrived ‘sharp’ at Radio Sucre, in Guayaquil, on the morning of January 4. His stern face gave him away from the moment he sat in the radio booth. “Jogging this morning or not?” asks director Vicente Arroba.
And the president resorted to sarcasm: “Yes, jogging early, despite all the sufferers… If I put on my glasses, bad; If I take them off, it’s worse,” he said in reference to the criticism of former presidential candidate Jan Topic, published on his X account on January 2.
“I’m honest, I don’t care much about jogging on the beach or glasses in speeches; everyone manages their image as they see fit. But the lack of direction?” Topic snapped.
Yesterday, the beginning of the new year and full of hope for Ecuadorians, turned out to be one of the bloodiest days in our history. 50 murders in 24 hours. 50. Double the annualized daily average and outrageously, a sign of our future…
I am… pic.twitter.com/g7S5Jkua4P
— Jan T. Topić (@jantopicecuador) January 2, 2024
“There is no wedge that fits,” added one of the interviewers, but Noboa was not far behind and responded sarcastically: “There is another similar phrase, but…”.
“And how did you decide to consult?” Arroba asked. “Because we are screwed with insecurity, dear friend,” he replied.
It was the consultation that altered Noboa’s mood when he said on the air: “They are basic questions. Some political groups were silent and now they come up with brilliant ideas“.
“Now they want to send constitutional reforms to the Assembly, now it seems to them that they have to hold a referendum and not a popular consultation, which would take more time, they don’t count that part.”
President Daniel Noboa
The president remained on the defensive when referring to question 11 on the operation of casinos:
“A collection of more than USD 300 million is expected, apart from more than USD 100 million between the two rates, but they should be highly regulated, only in hotels and tourist areas,” Noboa lashed out as if it were of an explanation for ‘dummies’.
But he returned to the popular consultation and warned that if the Assembly does not process what the citizens approve, “They will be punished at the pollsby the same people.”
“Destroy” and “Pokémon”
He immediately renamed the Construye movement, led by the former Government Minister, María Paula Romo, with its antonym: “Destroy”which “already had the conditions to be eliminated as a party,” said Noboa.
Romo didn’t fare any better. Noboa compared her to a Pokémonthat pocket monster from the Japanese manga.
“María Paula Romo was president of the Justice Commission of Correismo, a constituent assembly member of Correismo, from there she betrays Correismo and becomes an ultra-right anti-Correista… that is an incredible evolution, a Pokémon more or less“he declared.
“Is it a stone in your shoe that builds?”
For Alvarez and the “bukelelovers”
“Why didn’t you invite the mayor of Guayaquil, Aquiles Alvarez, to the meeting of the Security Council in the Government of Guayas?”
“We are separating things, I know he is your great friend“, he clarified to Arroba. “Council meetings are reserved,” the president concluded.
“Who else do you want me to invite to the secret security meetings? You, Marcela (Aguiñaga), who is nice. Let’s invite everyone… The Charity Board, don’t you want to come to Cosepe too? “.
Daniel Noboa
“He did beat me there,” Arroba accepted, but Noboa continued: “And (Alvarez) he’s going to get angry “if they don’t invite him to the Cosepe meeting, he shouldn’t even be there.”
Sarcasm accompanied him throughout the interview, in which he calmed to the “bukelelovers” for the construction of prisons, to which she invited whoever wanted to visit her, on the condition that they “commit a crime.”
For Noboa, criticism only responds to political egos. He is not bothered by the proposals, but by the way in which they are presented.
2024-01-05 00:02:17
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