POLITICAL (UN)CONTROL IN ECUADOR: HISTORY, LEGISLATION AND REALITY

Abstract

The article addresses political control in Ecuador with a realistic perspective: Ecuador has not reached the democratic maturity that allows its citizens to coexist in a state of law, legal security and political well-being. Although the various Ecuadorian Constitutions have clearly established the principles of political relations including the political judgement, they have not been materialized for the fulfillment of democratic purposes as the power relations have not respected
the constitutional norms. Ecuadorian history has been marked by warlords, civilians and military who have come to power without respecting the rule of law, and the armed forces that played a political role being key actors, visible or not, at times of destabilization of democracy. The coups d’état and dictatorships have been a constant, as well as the drafting of new constitutions that for the same reasons of continuous breakdown of the democratic State, never ceased to be inserted into the political life of the country