Daniel Noboa appoints Sariha Moya as vice president in charge of Ecuador after the suspension of Verónica Abad

The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboaappointed this Monday Sariha Moya as acting vice president, after her Government suspended the vice president and ambassador in Israel, Veronica Abadwith which he maintains a bitter confrontation and to which, in principle, he should delegate presidential functions during the electoral campaign for the 2025 elections.

Until now, Moya served as national secretary of Planning, and even after winning Noboa The extraordinary elections of 2023 were preliminarily announced by the Noboa to occupy the position of Minister of Economy and Finance, a portfolio that Juan Carlos Vega finally took.

Last Saturday it was learned that the Ministry of Labor suspended Abad for 150 days for not having been presented within the date indicated by the Government in Ankarawhere the Executive moved her from Tel Aviv for security reasons within the conflict that arises in Middle East.

Moya’s appointment took place hours after Abadfrom Türkiyebranded as “gross violation of the Constitution and the laws” the administrative summary that the Ministry of Labor opened and that has led to his suspension for five months.

In a video intervention broadcast on social networks, Abad accused Noboa on Sunday of allegedly preparing a “coup d’état” next January, assuming that she will not respect the delegation of presidential functions that – according to the Constitution – corresponds to her when the president must request leave for the electoral campaign in which he will seek re-election.

“They intend to disqualify me for five months for an offense not committed and without any proof, with the sole objective of not assuming the Presidency of the Republic, when the candidate president enters his campaign, in which they have already been openly since the beginning of his Government”, said.

Noboa is one of the 15 candidates for the Presidency and, for the electoral campaign period, he must ask for leave and temporarily delegate the position to Abad, with whom he has had a bitter confrontation since even before beginning his mandate.

“Using arguments typical of a dictatorship, the president Noboa“, his ministers, have organizedly prepared the breakdown of the constitutional order and the evident coup d’état, which is being prepared for January 6, 2025 to take over the presidential succession and in this way try to ensure re-election,” Abad said.

He mentioned “countless attempts” for pressuring her resignation, and stressed that the suspension of her position as vice president “It’s a clear reflection of a Government (…) that has chosen the path of repression and fear instead of transparency and respect for the popular will.”

“The use of institutions for personal purposes and the breakdown of constitutional order “They are practices that we cannot tolerate,” held.

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Call “to lose fear”

In your message Abad made a call to the authorities of social control and transparency, to the social and political forces, leaders and professionals, “to lose the fear that a misgovernment of terror has wanted to impart.”

He asked the National Assembly to supervise the actions of the Presidency, the ministries of Foreign Relations and Human and Work Mobility for the actions against them, and to the State Comptroller General to initiate a control process over their transfer to Türkiye from Israel.

Dressed in white and with a black ribbon on her lapel, she advanced that will denounce what happened to the international community and will face the circumstances, but noted that everyone must raise their voices to “silence the noise that organized political crime is making with my destroyed country.”

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Litigation in the Electoral Court

The decision of the Ministry of Labor came three days after the Electoral Contentious Court will fine Abad with 8,500 dollars, but did not suspend her political rights as requested by a complaint for having campaigned before the deadline for the 2023 elections, when she was a candidate for mayor of the Andean city of Cuenca.

Also in the TCE is pending resolution of the counterclaims that have been filed Abad and the Government of Noboa with mutual accusations of alleged gender violence, which can lead to eventual disqualification and dismissal of the authorities involved.

Noboa and Abad They maintain a political pulse that became evident at the beginning of the Government, when the ruler appointed her ambassador in Israelfrom where Abad She has reported various pressures to force her to resign.