PCMLE statement against Ecuadoran President Lasso's dissolution of the National Assembly and rule by decree

According to a notice May 23rd, because of this upheaval SIPRAL 27 (the 27th International Seminar "Problems of the Revolution in Latin America) will not be able to go ahead August 2 – 5 in Quito.  More information will come out around the end of the year.  Provincial, National Assembly, and presidential extraordinary elections will be held Sunday, August 20th.

¡Fuera Lasso,Ya! – pcmle.org/EM/spip.php?article12490

With the popular mobilization,
 stop the dictatorial attitudes of Lasso  

LASSO OUT, NOW! 

In a clear demonstration of an anti-democratic and dictatorial attitude, Guillermo Lasso has decreed the so-called "cross death" [ Constitutional provision that allows the President to dissolve Congress and rule by decree pending new elections – translator’s note.]  that allows him to assume personal powers to impose, via executive decrees, his economic-political program at the service of big business, bankers and international capital. In the next six months that would remain of his administration, he will consummate the privatization of state enterprises, the IESS, forests and water; He will impose labor reforms that make working conditions precarious and increase levels of capitalist exploitation; he will hand over natural resources to foreign companies and he will deepen the anti-popular policy that has characterized his administration during these two years.  

The arguments put forward to dissolve the National Assembly do not conform to the grounds that the Constitution establishes for taking such a measure. There is no internal upheaval in the country; There is an economic and political crisis for which this government is directly responsible, as well as the political forces that control Parliament.  

The dissolution of the National Assembly does not resolve the serious crisis that the country is going through. It is true that this Assembly – dominated by corrupt, opportunist and inept legislators – is a equally responsible for the situation that the country is going through and, therefore, like the Executive, is greatly rejected by the population. He has dissolved the Assembly to prevent the exercise of the constitutional right to political scrutiny and prosecution; he has dissolved it to prevent his dismissal, which is a popular outcry for being corrupt, incompetent and enemy of the people, expressed by the cry: Lasso out, NOW!  Those responsible for the crisis, who are in the executive and legislative branches, should not return to their positions.  

The organized popular movement (workers, peasants, indigenous people, students, teachers, small traders and others) must join forces to confront the dictatorial government, to exercise the right to resistance, to stop the neoliberal offensive, to respect the rights of the workers and people, including the right to life and to protest. The social and political unity of these sectors is fundamental to make the street the scene of this struggle.  

 Central Committee  

Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador – PCMLE  

May 17, 2023