Ecuadorian Assemblywoman Viviana Veloz assures that there is enough evidence to impeach President Guillermo Lasso, an issue on which the plenary of the legislature of this South American nation will vote today.

Quito.- Veloz was the leader of the multi-party commission that issued the report recommending the impeachment of the president and talked to Prensa Latina about the real possibilities of removing Lasso from office.

During the 21 sessions of the commission, we received dozens of testimonies and collected more than 40,000 documents with convincing, irrefutable evidence, which corroborate how the chief executive incurred crimes against the public administration and the security of the State, the lawmaker assured.

She stated that the faults committed by the President are, according to articles 129.1 and 129.2 of the Constitution, grounds for an impeachment trial.

Among the evidence of the crimes, she mentioned Decree 163, a document through which the Head of State granted the control of all public companies to Hernán Luque, who has been very close to Lasso since 1993 when they worked at Banco de Guayaquil, owned by the President.

To corroborate the facts of corruption that the president knew and hid, the legislator also cited the report of the former national anti-corruption secretary Luis Verdesoto on how this structure of bribes in public companies was established.

Likewise, Veloz referred to the accusations of links with drug trafficking by pointing out that a representative of the Internal Revenue Service could not justify why the Republic of Albania was removed from the list of tax havens. (PL)