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The Assembly adopted at full speed missing articles of the draft new constitution, which are nearly 500.
Following the resignation of Alberto Acosta, most Country Agreement voted last night a package of texts without the presence of the opposition. ). Under the leadership of Fernando Cordero, the House approved 33 articles and three transitional arrangements on four different subjects (see segments).
To that end, Country Agreement amended the agenda at the opening session of the House. Their aim: to approve the texts of Organization for Social and Civic Participation (24 articles and two transitional), Civil Rights (an article with 32 numerals), Right to Due Process (an article verbatim, 19) and Political Rights (seven articles and a transient).
With this decision, has already approved a total of 90 articles, as had previously spent 57. At 20:35 concluded the vote of those articles, which imposed most of the 35 list.
That decision was rejected by opposition parties. Its assembly decried that no-notice-inclusion in the agenda the adoption of the texts.
Therefore, shouted they did not know the contents of articles and therefore should not include the item on the agenda. "The formula block government approval in a single 'paquetazo' 33 articles as varied with each other gives us the tone for what will be the last month of work: the debate is sacrificed to please the President," said Cristina Reyes (PSC) .
In a sign of protest, the assembly of the PSP, PSC and left the PRI House. Those parties argued that Country Agreement accelerates the pace of work by order of President Correa, who emphasizes that the July 26 should be ready by the Constitution.
For expediting the adoption of the Constitution in the time remaining until that date, Lamb predicted that the procedure will change the debate in plenary.
Accordingly, posed to members of the minority reduce the time for discussion. . Among his plans, he said, is that only two or three assembly of each block involved in the discussions.
To enable this alternative, Country Agreement invited the chief block to a meeting with the official Galo Borja. The idea was to reach an agreement to limit interventions in the plenary.
But that initiative was not supported by the minority, which accuses Lamb of being "undemocratic" when given the floor. Nilton Tito Mendoza (PRI) protested because the leadership of the Assembly does not allow interventions of the blocks in an equitable manner. The PSC and the PSP not support this thesis.
debate Food, in second debate
The House also handled yesterday in second reading the articles of food sovereignty. campesinos”. The central article of the Bureau proposal 6 states: "The State shall regulate the use and access to land that meets environmental and social function, under the right to food sovereignty, with the participation of organizations of small and middle peasant producers. "
To that end, the body added that "prohibits the large estates and the concentration of land, as well as hoarding or privatization of water and its sources."
