Constituent Assembly of Ecuador
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The Constituent Assembly of Ecuador 2007/08 was convened by Ecuador's President Rafael Correa to enable the country to be reestablished with a new Ecuadorian constitution . It started and ended with referendums. The first referendum on April 15, 2007 was about whether a constituent assembly should be called. Over 80% of those who voted voted “Yes”.
On September 30, 2007, the members of the assembly were elected. For the first time in Ecuadorian history, a quota law was in force, according to which male and female candidates must alternate on the list. The president's Alianza PAÍS party, which was only formed last year, received 80 of 130 seats, leaving the established parties well behind. In addition to PAÍS, the parties PSP (by Lucio Gutiérrez ) and PRIAN (by Álvaro Noboa ), which were formed before the 2002 elections, received the most seats, 18 and 8 respectively. The conservative party Partido Social Cristiano received 5 seats, the social democratic Izquierda Democrática and the left-wing MPD each received 3 seats and the populist PRE received one seat. In addition, the indigenist movement Pachakutik (4), the RED party (around León Roldós ) (4) as well as the electoral movements UNO (2), Futuro Ya (1) and Honradez Nacional (1, Ximena Bohórquez ) each MP.
The assembly met in Montecristi, Manabí Province , the birthplace of Eloy Alfaro . Alberto Acosta (PAÍS) was President of the Assembly until June 24, 2008 , who was replaced by Fernando Cordero (PAÍS). On July 24th, 2008 the constitution was passed in the Constituent Assembly and on September 28th, 2008 it was passed by referendum with over 60% of the votes. It is the 20th constitution of Ecuador since the state independence in 1830. It officially came into force on October 20, 2008 when it was published in the Law Gazette.
On the basis of the new constitution, presidential and national assembly elections took place on April 26, 2009 . Until the constitution of the new parliament in the National Assembly on July 31, 2009, the Legislative Commission of the Constituent Assembly, consisting of 76 members, acted as the legislature of Ecuador. The National Congress had been adopted at the beginning of the session of the Constituent Assembly with an indefinite break in session and was replaced by the National Assembly after the new constitution came into force.
Web links
- asambleaconstituyente.gov.ec ( Memento from February 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Official homepage
- An analysis of the draft constitution (PDF; 180 kB) Michael Langer, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , September 2008
- Explanation of the basic principles of the constitution (PDF; 81 kB) by the former chairman Alberto Acosta, April 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonie Fuhrmann, Ecuador: First cracks in the radiant image , Telepolis , July 8, 2007.
- ↑ The official election result can be viewed here ( Memento from March 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the Supreme Electoral Court. The allocation of the mandates won through electoral alliances to candidates of individual parties follows Ecuador. Cronología del conflicto social. Noviembre 2007 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , a summary of press reports by the Consejo Latinoamericano de Sciencias Sociales (CLACSO) ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 12.
- ↑ La Constitución rige desde ayer al salir en el Registro Oficial , El Universo , October 21, 2008.
