Representative Claudia Ortiz, from the Vamos party, raised the alarm and described it as “curious” that the plenary session that should take place on Wednesday was rescheduled for Monday. She also recommended “being alert” to a possible constitutional reform or another “surprise.”

However, Ortiz maintained that the approval of an agreement on a constitutional reform should be the subject of debate. “We should not always be thinking that something is going to take the country by surprise; in terms of passing a law that generates a lot of legal uncertainty, and it should not be like that, because it is not the way to approve reforms to the Constitution, There should be a debate,” she said in recent statements.

For Ortiz, constitutional reforms must be aimed at expanding the rights of citizens to provide them with what is necessary as much as possible, and must be aimed at empowering someone.

Although the vice president of the country, Félix Ulloa, considered that this is the right time to introduce the reform, the president of the Legislative Assembly, Ernesto Castro, denied the possibility of introducing the issue, although he said that it would be done if the people ask for it.

Other spokespersons in the legislature affirm that the time is right since the country’s Constitution establishes that one Assembly approves and another ratifies, reforming it.

According to experts, the work of interpreting the Constitution is not an exclusive activity, but a function in which all sectors of social life must participate, something that is omitted in the current process that threatens to break into the plenary session of the assembly.

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