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The opposition leader and two-time presidential candidate in 19459008 Ecuador Guillermo Lasso blames the political and economic project of the current president, Lenin Moreno , is equal to that of his successor, Rafael Correa, but "with a friendly face."
"The Ecuador was ruled by (the left-wing official party) Alianza País last eleven years, first with the authoritarian face of Correa, then with the friendly face of Lenin Moreno" Lasso said in an interview with Efe in his office in the coastal city of Guayaquil.
62-year-old businessman and two-time Ecuadorian presidential candidate in 2013 and 2017, Lasso does not rule out once again becoming the conservative champion after losing at the last opportunity to Moreno by a difference of about 230,000 votes in the second round, a result that he disputed or suspected of fraud
Although the opposition in Ecuador seems to have been reduced to silence after Moreno took office in May 2017 with a spirit of conversation and without the confrontational spirit of his predecessor, [leaderdugrouped'oppositionCREOconsider' after the Correa decade there is an impression of change, that we have reached an oasis or paradise ".
But he claims that nothing is further from reality he resorts to a popular proverb to emphasize that "basically, it's the same syringe with a different bitoque, the same economic model, it is the same totalitarian project ".
As an example, he points out that the "executive" says straight "that he will reform the law on communication, which dates back to 2013 and is considered by the gag and the organizations that defend the freedom of the press to have a gag law, in practice there were no results. [19659004 "He spent a year and a half in government and follows the law of communication, as a weapon on the table, as a symbol of the threat to freedom of expression in the world. Ecuador "]
The Ecuadorian President recently stated that 80 amendments have been introduced to reform the legislation and that it is subject to parliamentary procedure.
However, the opposition, as the international organizations call Lasso continues to assert that in the two rounds of 2017, there was fraud and intentional misinformation, after which a number of null votes were announced, which no exit poll collected and gave the victory to the current
"The same thing happened here as in Venezuela, an electoral blackout out of more than one hour in which we had no information and when it turned on the results had noticeable changes "He said about some complaints that he prefers leave behind him: "They will remain in the political plane, but history will be responsible for judging them."
Therefore, he argues that the successor of Correa to legitimize himself in the face of the great doubt about fraud by a popular referendum "and so, on February 4, the plebiscite contained one of Lasso's campaign promises, which was to prevent the indefinite re-election of the authorities.
"It was our proposal" insists the general manager and principal shareholder of Banco de Guayaquil, for whom Moreno "continues to manage the economy with the same formula as Correa."
In this sense, he criticizes that in the first year of government "indebted the country in 10,000 million dollars" and that there is a "control" of public expenditures.
He also blames that in this first year of management "he has produced 161 000 suitable jobs" and proposes a new model that takes into account the basic needs of the population, but in same time allows the private company to revive the economy.
Explains that his parliamentary bloc, which brings together 22 of the 137 legislators of the House, has abstained from voting in favor of the new law of productive development, considering that it does not protect the fiscal deficit or public spending, "to prevent future governments from making mistakes to follow spend beyond what was due."
In foreign policy, Lasso strongly questions what he considers "a double position " concerning the situation in Venezuela.
"I have conveyed to the president that there can be only one political prisoner, or else there is democracy or it does not exist and this has been denounced by some countries of the region " states
" I would aspire to see a clearer and firmer position ", insists on the lack of firm sentence of Quito of Nicolás Maduro
and reveals that the only contact maintained with Moreno since his presidency was a call of gratitude as a result of his support for insecurity on the border with Colombia for a series of attacks and kidnappings against Ecuadorians
"They do not speak either in the Assembly or at the government level, there is absolutely no dialogue," he concludes. EFE
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