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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Andean Group - 07 September 2018
ECUADOR: ‘Emperor’ overhauls national institutions
“Julio César Trujillo, with a less-than-mediocre political record, has become ‘emperor’ of Ecuador,” former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017) recently tweeted. The man upon whom Correa conferred the imperial title ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in 1984 and is now serving as the president of the transitional Consejo de Participación Ciudadana y Control Social Transitorio (Cpccs-t), the body tasked with conducting a clear-out of Ecuador’s top judicial and state institutions. The day after Correa’s tweet the Cpccs-t proceeded to dismiss all nine constitutional court (CC) magistrates. It followed up on this by firing the majority of the judges on the court for electoral disputes (TCE). The Cpccs-t accused the officials, inter alia, of being unqualified and misusing their positions. Correistas, in turn, accused the Cpccs-t of a ruthless purge of Ecuador’s democratic institutions.
