Countries are proud when they can tell the world that they are a ‘rule of law’. A rule of law is one where the law is respected, where the functions of the state have independence and where the checks and balances of democracy work.
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It seems that Ecuador shouts to the world that it is a State of anarchy, and that it also strives to specialize and advance in the construction of this aberration.
Every day we Ecuadorians wake up to see a maneuver within the Judiciary Council, another within the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control, another in the Electoral Contentious Tribunal, another in the National Court, and a thousand more maneuvers and agreements in the National Assembly, which, far from being oriented to the search for the common good, are oriented to the search for a piece of what has always been called “troncha”.
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Recently, the National Assembly decided not to abide by a ruling of the courts. The ruling may be bad, even illegal, but the Assembly does not have the power to ignore a ruling. There are ways to do so in the law and in the Constitution.
The Attorney General's Office, whose extraordinary work in many cases such as Metastasis and Purga cannot be doubted, reacts to a habeas corpus ruling and directly initiates a raid on two judges of the National Court who granted the aforementioned measure.
Little by little each citizen becomes an arbiter of the law, an interpreter of the law, and in this way we will gradually arrive at what we know as “the law of the jungle”, in which each citizen decides to take justice into his own hands, and make that which seems unjust, or illegal or inadequate, be resolved by his own means, and not by the path dictated by the law.
Without the rule of law, no society has ever been able to advance and develop. Even in totalitarian China, there are procedures and they are respected. European nations and the USA, as well as temperate countries such as Australia and New Zealand, have achieved the standard of living they have today not only because of correct economic policies, but also because they have always seen the law and respect for institutions as the path to progress and advancement.
Argentina was, like New Zealand and Australia, a southern hemisphere country that received European immigration and aimed to be what those two countries are today. But not only did they make economic mistakes, but they also generated a State of manifest privileges for privileged groups above the institutional framework.
With 17 candidates for the Presidency of Ecuador, it will be difficult to touch the issue of institutionality and to unite wills to begin the path towards the rule of law and to leave the state of anarchy.
If we do not become aware that the culture of legality and civilized coexistence is the only one that makes countries progress, anarchy, together with the great unresolved structural economic problems, will impose an eternal curse on us. (O)
Source: eluniverse.com
