Condiciones para la aplicación de la “Muerte Cruzada” en Ecuador: la utopía constitucional Conditions for the application of the "Death Cross" in Ecuador: the constitutional utopia

Abstract

Within the South American context, Ecuador through its current Constitution, has implemented the possibility of dissolving the National Assembly with the use of the legal mechanism of "cross death", through which the President of the Republic takes the powers established in the constitutional text, to end the legislative exercise of all the representatives of the country, and following the procedure established in this same text, provide that new elections be called in order to culminate with the period that remained in force. The present investigation is oriented to establish a study that essentially understands the legal-social analysis that results in its validity in the Constitution, and what are those budgets or options that allow the President to resort to this alternative to dissolve outright a prior democratic process of legislative elections. It is necessary to refer to the use of a dogmatic and synthetic analytical research method in the development of this text, in order to grant a plausible content in the approach that is intended to be given to this research.