Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the National Assembly in a decree on Wednesday, bringing forward legislative and presidential elections, a day after he presented his defense in an impeachment process. Lasso will now remain in office for up to six months, ruling by decree, while national electoral authorities set the date for the elections. Those voted into power in the early elections would only serve until the regularly-scheduled 2025 elections take place. The impeachment process was the first against an Ecuadorian president in decades. Ninety-two votes from the 137-member legislature would have been needed to remove Lasso from office.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald May 18, 2023 01:33 UTC