Ecuador’s president Guillermo Lasso will be tried by a hostile congress for alleged corruption after the constitutional court gave the go-ahead for impeachment proceedings, threatening the political stability of the oil-exporting Andean nation.
The court ruled by a 6-3 majority that Lasso could be tried by legislators on a charge of allowing corruption in government, a process that could take up to 45 days. It rejected two other charges on procedural grounds.
A conservative former banker who won a narrow election victory in 2021, Lasso is less than halfway through his four-year term. He is an increasingly isolated rightwing leader in Latin America, where many countries have swung strongly to the left over the past two years.
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