(Reuters) -Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso said he would dissolve congress and call early elections if he does not muster enough support among legislators ahead of a potential impeachment hearing, the Financial Times said on Tuesday.
The comments, in an interview with Lasso, come a day after lawyers representing him asked lawmakers to declare the impeachment hearing inadmissible, denying the accusations of embezzlement against him.
“Correct, correct. That’s what I declare,” the newspaper quoted Lasso as saying in response to a query whether he would invoke a constitutional clause known as “mutual death” to force elections for both his own job and a new congress.
The constitution allows Lasso to call elections for both his post and the assembly instead of facing hearings, in a procedure widely described as “mutual death”.
Opposition lawmakers in Ecuador’s National Assembly have pushed for such hearings…
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