Ecuador - March 2023

Ecuador’s Constitutional Court determined the admissibility of an impeachment request endorsed by the opposition against President Guillermo Lasso, for alleged corruption and crimes against state security. A majority of six of the nine justices determined the admissibility of the request regarding the crime of embezzlement. Lasso will now face impeachment proceedings in the National Assembly, where a two-thirds majority would have to vote in favour of impeachment for him to be removed from office. The opposition’s request followed a newspaper’s investigation into an alleged scheme of corruption related to the allocation of jobs in State enterprises, and allegedly involving the President’s brother-in-law. 

Sources: British Broadcasting Corporation, La Nacion