norton -- it does sound odd to our ears but yes; the President of Ecuador is indeed calling out protestors to threaten the Congress of the country with violence if they do not call the Constituent Assembly he is asking for.
The following translated excerpt is from a
Colombian newspaper report on the incident. Note the intimidating stance of Correa's Vice President as he speaks of the legislature being at fault rather than the protestors:
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. . . The Vice President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, assured everyone last Monday that dialogue with Congressmen and members of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) had "exhausted itself" on the call to convene a Constituent Assembly.
"Dialogue has exhausted itself. The gentlemen Deputies and the gentlemen of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal only have to glue their ears to the ground and to listen to what the people want. The people want a new set of rules, what they have does not persuade them. Please let us change that set of rules," Moreno indicated.
The Vice President indicated to the deputies that "the Constituent Assembly right is only delegated to the Congress, not given as a gift, not given away in permanent form. When the people wish to they can rescue it for themselves, they can reclaim it for themselves, and they can exercise that. . . ."
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You see, it's not the protestor's fault for using violence, it's the Congress's fault for not giving Correa and his Chavista allies what they want. That's intimidation.