The institutional persecution against the largest leftist party continues.
On Tuesday, Joaquin Viteri, a judge of Ecuador’s Electoral Dispute Settlement Court, denied a request from Citizen Revolution (RC) to overturn the provisional suspension imposed on the leftist organization, the largest and most organized political party in this Andean country.
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The judge determined that Gabriela Rivadeneira, who was elected RC president in January, does not have the legal standing required to act on behalf of the movement.
The judicial ruling invalidated the motion for annulment and revocation filed by Rivadeneira two days earlier. In practical terms, Viteri decided to treat the request as if it had not been filed, leaving in force the sanction suspending the RC for nine months.
To justify his decision, Viteri considered a certification sent by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which states that the Citizen Revolution’s legal representation remains in the hands of Luisa Gonzalez, the former presidential candidate.
In that regard, Judge Viteri concluded that Rivadeneira does not appear in the permanent registry of political organizations as having authority to represent the movement and therefore lacks the legal capacity to file motions on its behalf.
Through the social media platform X, Rivadeneira said that, following orders from right-wing President Daniel Noboa, the CNE has still not registered the Citizen Revolution’s new leadership elected in January.
“Eight weeks have passed since the election of the new leadership at the National Convention of Manabi,” she recalled, describing the CNE’s omission as an action that “completely nullifies democracy, already wounded by its own members.”
[ SOURCE: teleSUR ]
