June 25, 2008
Quito
The president, Rafael Correa, last night referred indirectly to recent events in the Constituent Assembly that led to the resignation of Alberto Acosta for the presidency of this body, last Monday.
The agent participated in the launch of the collection of biographies General Manuel Saenz, in tribute to Gral. Eloy Alfaro, in the Agora de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana (CCE).
Correa said "we are not baffled with false dilemmas, there is no antagonism in working superbly well and extraordinarily fast to fulfill the mandate set in stone, people's inescapable, and a first step is to stop false democracies, we want to believe that all world can debate endlessly, if that's democracy, gentlemen, I am not a democrat. "
The Head of State added that "democracy is basically fulfilling the mandate we gave the Ecuadorian people in the popular consultation, which told us make a Constitution in eight months and that is precisely what is going to make NATO COUNTRY, more united than ever ...".
Correa-without naming anyone-mentioned further that "something else is believing that did not need political leadership, something else is believing that everyone should participate in all decisions; otherwise is to believe they could sit at wasting time by discussing discuss, confusing what with democracy; else is believing that they had to stop imposing the agenda of his enemies, the agenda of the losers, something else is believing it did not have to obey the mandate given to him by his people to comply with its mission in a given time. "
He added that "nobody is indispensable, and hopefully many young people here we put to one side by useless and take the baton to conduct these processes of profound change, of revolution to realize the dreams of the Ecuadorian people."
The Assemblyman Alberto Acosta said on Monday that "this provision and my personal position, not sacrificing the debate by the pressure of the deadline, is not shared in its scope and what it means at times, with most of the dome Agreement COUNTRY ... Democracy is intrinsic fundamental condition that all people can be heard and can listen. That is the exercise component. "
Correa reproduced the general Alfaro with the phrase "nothing for us," adding that recently "it said a beloved friend of mine."
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