Legislative Commissions Finally Conformed

ECUADOR - In Brief 20 May 2021 by Magdalena Barreiro
After two days of lack of consensus, the new majority formed by Creo-Independents, Pachakutik and Izquierda Democratica finally achieved the exact 70 necessary votes to conform the 15 specialized legislative commissions. However, presidents of these commissions that have nine members, were not appointed yet. The difficulties of the two first days evidence a rupture between Creo and Social Christians that deepens rapidly while the latter gets closer to UNES.In our opinion, the most important ones that will be involved in the analysis of the tax, labor and trade reforms proposed by President Lasso are Economic and Tax Regime, Economic Development, and Labor. Economic regime has three members from Creo, one each from Izquierda Democratica and Pachakutik one from the Social Christian Party and three from UNES --with the experienced and leftist Pavel Munoz being one of them. Economic development has three independents, two from Creo one from ID, one from Pachakutik and one from UNES. Finally, the officialism is weaker in the Labor Commission with just one member from Creo, two from ID, two from Pachakutik and three from UNES. Social Christian and UNES have a majority only in the so-called Commission of Transparency that is conformed solely by members of these two parties. In this context, governability will heavily depend on the cohesion and consensus of the new official majority. However, there are at least two legislators from Pachakutik that are proving to be hard nuts to crack maybe due to their closeness to Yaku Perez who left Pachakutik as he is opposed to the agreement between this party and Creo whom he accused of being "neo-liberal and rightist".

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