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Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has dissolved his countrys Parliament -which was trying to impeach him out of office- and called for early elections by resorting to a procedure outlined in the Constitution, it was reported in Quito. In the meantime, Lassso will run the country through Constitutional Court monitored decrees.

Facilitating that Ecuadorians residing abroad can go to the polls amid sanitary restrictions due to the pandemic, the non-printing of ballots to elect Andean parliamentarians and adjusting the operation of the Computerized System of Scrutiny and Results (SIER) are the activities that the  National Electoral Council (CNE) must resolve in the final stretch of the organization of the electoral day that will take place this Sunday, February 7. Marked by setbacks, the CNE will face its second elec...

The National Electoral Council (CNE) sent to the  Constitutional Court (CC) a demand for conflict of powers, regarding its powers to organize the national elections of February 2021, in response to the judgments of  the Contentious Electoral Tribunal (TCE) . Electoral Council sends demand of conflict of competences to constitutional judges; political groups ask for ‘legal certainty’ It was announced by the president of the Council,  Diana Atamaint during the IV Consultative Council o...

To understand a little more thoroughly the mess between the National Electoral Council and the Electoral Contentious Tribunal, which reveals a cloak of uncertainty about the elections of February 7, we must go to the heart of the problem. Two experts consulted by EXPRESO agree that this is totally or largely in the approval or not of  the presidential candidacy of businessman Álvaro Noboa. The electoral earthquake of the Álvaro Noboa effect And at this point a first question arises. Which p...