Ecuador’s Top Court to Review the Legality of Closing Congress

(Bloomberg) -- Ecuador’s Constitutional Court will review whether President Guillermo Lasso’s decree to close the opposition-held congress was legal, according to the filing on the court’s website.

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Four deposed former legislators filed the motion to overturn Lasso’s move, alleging failure to properly motivate his executive decree and to observe due process.

In a nationwide address early Wednesday, Lasso said his decree meets the rules of article 148 of the constitution, which allows a president to dissolve the congress once in his first three years in office, and he requested the country’s electoral authority to set a date for elections.

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