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to remove several high-ranking officers if there is a failure to perform the duties
listed in the Constitution. Ihe removal is done through impeachment proceedings.
Giving to the TCCPSC the attributions of the Parliament means that one branch
of government took the powers of another branch.
THE EVALUATION AND TERMINATION ATTRIBUTIONS OF THE TCCPSC
Exercising its “evaluation” and "termination" attributions, the TCCPSC ceased
29 out of the 31 authorities. Table 1 lists these authorities and the branches of
government they belonged to.
TABLE 1
AUTHORITIES CEASED BY THE TCCPSC
BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY
The five members of the Judiciary Council
Judiciary
The nine justices of the Constitutional Court
The five members of the National Electoral Council
Electoral
Three out of five judges of the Electoral Dispute Settlement
Court
The head of the Ombudsperson’s Office
The head of the Superintendence of Banks and Insurances
The head of the Superintendence of Companies
The head of the Superintendence of Popular and Solidary
Transparency and Social Control Economy
The head of the Superintendence of Territorial Planning
The head of the Superintendence of Control of the Market’s
Power
The head of the Superintendence of Communication
According to question 3, the TCCPSC was supposed to evaluate all the authorities
appointed by the extinct Council of Citizens’ Participation. Yet, the TCCPSC
did not evaluate the head of the Office of the Comptroller General (Contraloria
General del Estado). The relevance of this omission is that the Comptroller General
was an “ally” of President Moreno.?
Conversely, the TCCPSC did evaluate and ceased the justices of the Constitutional
8 Colectivo de Abogados por la Democracia, Judicializacién de la politica y bloqueo politico:
El caso del ‘proceso’ de la Revolucién Ciudadana en Ecuador, Virgilio Hernandez Blog (30
August 2018), http://virgiliohernandez.ec/blog/2018/08/30/216/; Augusto Verduga Sanchez,
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