Speaking to local radio on Monday, in the southern province of El Oro, the president considered that the current Magna Carta, approved in 2008, is filled with errors, so he is promising to promote a new Constitution, “because we are going to win.”
“There must be a Constituent Assembly with very clear objectives. “We need very deep reforms to the Constitution to give peace of mind to the citizens again,” he commented.
Regarding security, he pointed out that in recent weeks there has been an offensive by criminal groups and justified the recent changes in his Cabinet and in the Security Block, made up of the Police and the Armed Forces.
“We are reorganizing the team,” said Noboa, as he assured that ministers around him are committed to not giving in to mafias or giving away the country, which experienced the most violent month in history last January, despite the states of exception and other measures from the Presidency.
He also advocated his proposed constitutional reform seeking to install foreign military bases in the country as a way of confronting organized crime, despite the risks to sovereignty, as warned by experts and social organizations.
Noboa questioned actions by the Citizen Revolution’s (RC) legislators who, in his view, are holding back the project of foreign military installations and assured “that people are fed up with politicking.”
He indicated that his movement, Acción Democrática Nacional (ADN), will add more assembly members to the 68 who were elected for the next legislature. Regarding the social area, he highlighted that his government has invested 80 million dollars in education, devoting 46 million to new schools, while offering 116 thousand scholarships to youngsters.
In the next few weeks, Noboa pledged, his government will fork out funds to reduce the historical debt with health, including dialysis clinics and the Society for the Fight against Cancer (SOLCA), whose patients report problems in care due to lack of state funds.
Assessing the runoff on April 13, when he will face Luisa González, from the RC, he appeared confident and reiterated the proposal to prohibit the entry of electronic devices into the electoral precincts, something that the National Electoral Council (CNE) must analyze.
The president-candidate, currently focused on the second round, is visiting different provinces these days, attending events such as fairs of government institutions, meetings with farmers and others.
Last Monday the CNE cleared the results of the first round of the elections and indicated that Noboa obtained 44.17 percent of the votes, while Luisa González won 43.97 percent, that is, the difference is only 0.2 percent.
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