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Ecuador's Constitutional Court Blocks Noboa's Initiatives
- Ecuador's Constitutional Court has provisionally suspended several articles from three laws proposed by President Daniel Noboa, pending a final decision on the matter.
- The suspended provisions include allowing intelligence agents to operate undercover and gather information without public procurement regulations, raising concerns of potential rights violations.
- Noboa's power to issue an early pardon for police and military personnel prosecuted for crimes during the internal armed conflict has also been halted.
- The ruling has sparked tension between the executive and judicial branches, with government allies criticizing the decision while opposition parties praise it.
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Ecuador's Constitutional Court blocks Noboa's initiatives
Ecuador's Constitutional Court has provisionally suspended several articles from three laws championed by President Daniel Noboa: the Organic Intelligence Law, the National Solidarity Law, and the Organic Law on Public Integrity. These norms had faced constitutional challenges from various organizations and opposition groups who argued that they violated fundamental rights.
The Minister of Government, Zaida Rovira, and the President of the National Assembly, Niels Olsen, criticized the decision of the Constitutional Court (CC) to suspend, on a provisional basis, seventeen articles of the laws of National Solidarity, Intelligence and Public Integrity, and demanded explanations from the body of constitutional control.
Noboa's Polemical Laws Temporarily Halted by the Constitutional Court - teleSUR English
The Constitutional Court of Ecuador provisionally suspended on Monday a series of articles from several laws promoted by President Daniel Noboa, following multiple constitutional challenges from organizations warning of violations of fundamental rights. RELATED: Ecuador and US Sign Controversial Security Agreement Amid Rising Social Unrest Among the suspended articles are some controversial provisions of the Organic Intelligence Law, such as tho…
The Minister of Government, Zaida Rovira, and Assembly President Niels Olsen, in a joint national chain around midnight on Monday, August 4, responded to the decision of the Constitutional Court that suspended the application of several articles on the laws of Intelligence, Public Integrity and National Solidarity. “The Constitutional Court owes the country an explanation. An explanation with face, with foundations,” Rovira said, accompanied als…
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Constitutional suspends 24 articles of Noboa's urgent laws while studying claims of unconstitutionality The Second Court of the Admissions Chamber of the Constitutional Court suspended this Monday 24 of articles of three laws promoted with the urgent character of President Daniel Noboa, which have accumulated a set of claims of unconstitutionality by [...] The entry Ecuador Court brakes laws of Intelligence and Integrity promoted by Noboa after…
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