[Politics] Constitutional Court will listen in audience to proponents and detractors of the po[CENSORED]r consultation to exploit crude oil in the Yasuní ITT

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For this Tuesday, April 18, a public hearing is scheduled to be held to hear the positions of civil society and the State, prior to the Constitutional Court (CC) ruling on the ruling on the constitutionality of the question of the consultation proposal. to allow the exploitation of oil in block 43 of the Yasuní ITT, located in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

The judge of the Constitutional Court and rapporteur for the case, Carmen Corral Ponce, called on the interested parties to present their positions in a procedure that will take place electronically this Tuesday from ten in the morning.

The proponents of this initiative, the YASunidos collective, submitted a brief to the Court on March 14 in which they requested sanctions against the magistrate, alleging that their rights to due process, to effective judicial protection, and for discriminating against them were violated. maintain an "unjustified delay" in the treatment of the cause.

This is because the proposal has been waiting for a response from the State for ten years and about 200 days pending in the Constitutional Court without a pronouncement.

However, the plenary session of the highest constitutional control body filed the complaint because the Constitution and the Law of Jurisdictional Guarantees and Constitutional Control (LOGJCC) do not contemplate the imposition of calls for attention to judges for the delay in the processing of a case. . “The petitioners have not invoked a norm that provides for the infraction and sanction that they request, this body considers that if the request presented is accepted, the principle of legality in sanctions matters would be violated. Consequently, the request is inadmissible”, the Court concluded and rejected and archived the request.

The po[CENSORED]r consultation proposal arose in 2014 and more than 753,000 signatures of citizen support were collected to formulate the following question: "Do you agree that the Ecuadorian Government maintains the ITT crude, known as Block 43, indefinitely in the subsoil?".

At that time, the National Electoral Council (CNE) responded that YASunidos did not obtain the number required by the Constitution and the Democracy Code to carry out the process.

But, after several legal appeals filed by the group, in September 2022 the Electoral Contentious Tribunal (TCE) ordered the CNE to grant the certificate of democratic legitimacy on the verification of the signatures and send it to the Constitutional Court to issue its constitutionality ruling on the question.

In this context, the judges will decide if the question raised meets the requirements established by the LOGJCC and if so, they will refer it to the National Electoral Council to call an election; otherwise, it will reject the proposal.

In addition to the summons to this hearing, Judge Carmen Corral gave a term of three days for the National Assembly, the Presidency of the Republic; the Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources; the Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition; the Ministry of Economy and Finance; the Ministry of Women and Human Rights; Petroecuador; the Agency for the Regulation and Control of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources; and, the authorities of the municipal governments of the cantons of Aguarico, Orellana and Pastaza, as well as the prefectures of Orellana and Pastaza, send you "information, reports and updated inputs that, within the scope of their powers, have strict correspondence with the technical management, legal, environmental and financial, with respect to the hydrocarbon exploitation of block 43 of the Yasuní National Park ("PNY"), especially in relation to the subscription and duration of oil sale or pre-sale contracts, public indebtedness associated with said contracts, life usefulness of the declaration of national interest for the exploitation of blocks 31 and 43 of the PNY, amount of crude oil reserves, expectations of total extraction of said reserves, estimated period of completion of extractive activities, environmental and social impacts”.

Those who participate in this Tuesday's proceedings will have 20 minutes to present their arguments for or against the referendum; while, the institutions of the State will be able to do it in a time of ten minutes; there will be another five minutes for aftershocks.

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