Ecuador's National Assembly voted Saturday in favor of a report which recommends opening an impeachment process against President Guillermo Lasso, accusing him of corruption over dealings in public companies. Lasso, a conservative former banker, does not have a majority in the National Assembly and has repeatedly clashed with lawmakers, some of whom tried to oust him in 2022. The report was presented Wednesday by a commission of seven mostly opposition lawmakers who examined accusations that positions and contracts at Ecuadorean state companies had been exchanged for bribes. The report concluded Lasso could have been involved in possible crimes against state security and the public administration, assertions rejected by the government. Lasso’s government has called the report an “attack on reason” and said its findings are based on coincidences and conjecture. Following the lawmakers’ decision Saturday, Government Minister Henry Cucalon said the Assembly approved “a shameful report … lacking legal and binding validity.” For impeachment hearings to go ahead,

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