Oversight committee to decide Saturday whether to advance impeachment case against David Rosero

Ecuador’s National Assembly oversight committee will meet Saturday to decide whether to qualify an impeachment request against David Rosero, a member of the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control.

Committee chairman Ferdinán Álvarez called the session for 7 p.m. The request has already passed the preliminary review of the Legislative Administration Council, known as the CAL.

Former Citizens’ Revolution lawmaker Sergio Peña, now an ally of the governing bloc in the Assembly, filed the complaint. He cited a meeting lasting more than two hours between Rosero and Inés Romero, one of the candidates in the contest to select Ecuador’s next attorney general. Peña said the meeting took place in an apartment in Cumbayá, in northwest Quito, and amounted to a conflict of interest under the law.

Peña also said he received a complaint by email containing videos and photographs related to Rosero. He accuses the council member of failing to perform his duties, one of the grounds that can lead to censure and removal through impeachment proceedings in the Assembly.

The Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control is conducting the selection process for a successor to Diana Salazar, who resigned. The candidates include acting Attorney General Leonardo Alarcón. The council is also managing the partial renewal of Ecuador’s National Electoral Council.