The proposal was also forwarded to the National Electoral Council (CNE), an institution that must call the referendum within 45 days.
However, first the court must analyze the constitutionality of the questions posed to citizens.
The constitutional reform proposal was put forward by former President Guillermo Lasso in December 2022, after the Constitutional Court denied that the matter was subject to consultation.
Since then, the process has gone through two debates in the legislature, but was interrupted after the former president declared death on the cross when he faced a political trial and dissolved the National Assembly and called for early elections in the country. To the.
According to official information, this package of reforms will allow President Daniel Noboa to obtain, through an executive decree, complementary support to the National Police Armed Forces to combat crimes such as drug trafficking, money laundering, arms trafficking and human trafficking with links to organized criminal groups, without the need to issue states of emergency.
If the process passes the CC review, the CNE will set the date on which Ecuadorians must go to the polls to decide this issue.
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