President of Ecuador Guillermo Lasso. File photoMEXICO CITY, June 25The National Assembly of Ecuador during its Saturday session will discuss the impeachment of President Guillermo Lasso.» on the basis of a petition of at least a third of the members of the National Assembly,» the parliament's press service blog post on Twitter reads. The impeachment meeting was convened by Parliament Speaker Virgilio Sakisela after a request from 47 deputies from the Union of Hope faction Unes. The session will be held face-to-face and will begin at 18:00 local time (2:00 Sunday Moscow time). The votes of 92 of the 137 members of the assembly will be required to approve the impeachment. President Lasso on Friday in an address to citizens said that the real intention of the participants in the violent actions that unfolded in the cities of the country is to stage a coup, and warned of the threat to democracy in the country.
br>The protests of the Confederation of Indian Peoples of Ecuador (La Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador, CONAIE) against the social and economic policy of the country's leadership began on June 13 with small demonstrations and a week later covered the whole country. Since June 18, a state of emergency has been introduced in a number of regions, including the capital. Road blockages have shut down utilities and hampered emergency services, and the state-owned oil company Petroecuador shut down more than 800 wells and oil pumping through the SOTE Trans-Ecuador Oil Pipeline. />The President of Ecuador: the police will begin to use weapons to ensure order