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The Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (Spanish: Consejo de Participación Ciudadana y Control Social) was created in 2008 in Ecuador. It is an autonomous entity that leads the function of Transparency and Social Control of the Republic of Ecuador.
The National Assembly (Spanish: Asamblea Nacional) is the unicameral legislature of Ecuador. It replaced the National Congress in 2009 following reforms under the 2008 Constitution. [1] Within Ecuador, the National Assembly has the power to pass laws, while appointment of judges to the National Court of Justice is done by a separate Judicial ...
The Court was created as part of Ecuador's 1996 constitutional reform package. It is composed of nine magistrates. The Court has been affected by Ecuador's recent political crises. In 2005, President Lucio Gutiérrez manipulated his party's modest advantage in Congress to replace numerous justices, including eight of nine members of the Court . [1]
The Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (Spanish: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (IESS)), is an autonomous entity that is part of the social security system of Ecuador and is responsible for implementing the mandatory universal insurance, according to the Constitution of the Republic, in force since 2008.
Prior to the invasion of the Inca, the Indigenous societies of Ecuador had complex and diverse social, cultural, and economic systems. The ethnic groups of the central Sierra were generally more advanced in organizing farming and commercial activities, and the peoples of the Coast and the Oriente generally followed their lead, coming to ...
The Christian Social Party (Spanish: Partido Social Cristiano, PSC) is a centre-right political party in Ecuador. [2] [4]The party was founded in 1951 under the name of Christian Social Movement (Movimiento Social Cristiano) by Camilo Ponce Enríquez, who was Ecuador's president from 1956 to 1960, and Sixto Durán Ballén.
Being the eighth president in 10 years, Correa called for a Constitutional Assembly to create a new constitution for Ecuador. Ecuador relies heavily on the income gained from exploiting its natural resources. The country's largest export, crude petroleum, represents 29% of Ecuador's GDP, coming in with a total value of $5.63 billion. [5]
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