Ecuadorian ex-president proposes collecting signatures to revoke Lasso’s mandate

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa proposed on Thursday, June 23, that the people of Ecuador gather signatures to recall the current president, Guillermo Lasso, from office.

“If Lasso had any responsibility and patriotic love, he would consider his office under Article 148 of the Constitution. As he is not going to do it, we will have to gather signatures for a recall,” Correa said in a message posted on his Twitter account.

Quoting a tweet in which the Ecuadorian Minister of the Interior, Francisco Jiménez Pancho, announced the decision to open the doors of the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana in Quito for the indigenous organizations to hold their assemblies, the former president of Ecuador said that the current Executive would be “in clinical death”.

“It reads: we have already agreed. The government will remain in clinical death, with less than 20% of support,” added Correa, who has also accused Lasso of winning with “cheating”.

“Sentence by psychic influence to prevent me from participating. Obscenely pro-Lasso press, lying and manipulating. Thundering Lasso’s lies, he is a big fraud,” Correa added in another Twitter message.

The former Ecuadorian president is in Belgium after the country offered him political asylum. Correa, convicted of bribery in a case that has also affected other members of his former government, has always defended that he is a victim of political persecution.

With information from La Tercera

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