Government Mobilization Accentuates the Struggle with the Constitutional Court and ‘Beats’ Its Independence, Analysts Say
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For some analysts, the mobilization of the National Government towards the Constitutional Court (CC), in Quito, on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, deepens the struggle of the Executive with the constitutional control body.
The appearance of banners with the faces of the judges of the highest body of constitutional control, accused of being responsible for the insecurity, was one of the elements that marked the demonstration called by the Government against the Constitutional Court on 12 August.
I. Vaccination of the judicial function From a legal-political perspective, the Constitutional Court, CC's ruling falls within the legal powers of the High Court as guarantor of constitutional control, established in article 436 of the Constitution, which grants it the power to hear and decide unconstitutional actions, as well as in article 79 of the Law on Jurisdictional Guarantees, which allows it to order the temporary suspension of the conte…
The judges of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador provisionally suspended articles of laws promoted by Daniel Noboa, intensifying the tension between the Executive and this body. The post Who are the nine judges of the Constitutional Court and why is there tension between this institution and President Daniel Noboa? appeared first on El Diario.
After the mobilization led by President Daniel Noboa towards the Constitutional Court, the UN, human rights organizations, the National Court, the Conaie and other sectors rejected what they considered to be an act of stigmatization against constitutional judges. The march, held on August 12, 2025 and concluded in front of the headquarters
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