Tag: Constitution of Ecuador
-
A Convenient Emergency: Perilous Times for Judicial Independence in Ecuador
—Patricia Sotomayor Valarezo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, X: @PatySValarezo The notion of the judiciary’s inherent weakness, as proposed in The Federalist Papers number 78, along with Tsebelis’s idea (Tsebellis 2002) of judges as veto players ultimately absorbed by other political actors, can now be questioned in light of the many judicial decisions with significant…
-
“La Muerte Cruzada”: How Ecuador’s President Lasso ended an Impeachment Attempt by Decree
–Adwaldo Lins Peixoto Neto, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Presidential impeachment is a democratic but turbulent instrument of removing presidents who committed misdeeds without breaking the political and democratic system. In Ecuador, this institution has now worked adequately under the last constitution, and the Constitution promulgated in 2008 set a new institutional…
-
Slovakia Amends the Constitution to Cap the Retirement Age
—Simon Drugda, PhD Candidate at the University of Copenhagen On March 28, 2019, the Slovak Parliament amended the Constitution to cap the retirement age at 64. The imposition of retirement age is quite an unusual design feature in comparative constitutional law.