Overview
- The Constitutional Court admitted the executive’s request to call a Constituent Assembly to formal review, initiating control over the considerandos, the draft question and the statute for electing and operating the body.
- The National Electoral Council opened the 2025 electoral period for the referendum and will include the Constituent question only if the Court issues a favorable opinion.
- Two questions already cleared for the referendum seek to allow foreign military bases in Ecuador and to end compulsory public financing for political parties.
- President Daniel Noboa revoked the first decree after the Court suspended it and issued a new one repeating the call, extending his confrontation with the tribunal over the limits of presidential authority.
- Security forces contained an indigenous-led push to enter Latacunga after the diesel subsidy was removed, with the city heavily guarded under emergency measures and at least 24 detentions reported.