{"id":10073,"date":"2021-04-08T14:38:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T19:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=10073"},"modified":"2021-04-08T14:38:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T19:38:53","slug":"high-court-rules-state-of-emergency-must-end-midnight-friday-says-30-day-declaration-not-justified-cuencahighlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/high-court-rules-state-of-emergency-must-end-midnight-friday-says-30-day-declaration-not-justified-cuencahighlife\/","title":{"rendered":"High court rules state of emergency must end midnight Friday, says 30-day declaration not justified &#8211; CuencaHighLife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cuencahighlife.com\/high-court-rules-state-of-emergency-must-end-midnight-friday-says-30-day-declaration-not-justified\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/chl-constitutional-court.png\" width=\"478\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/cuencahighlife.com\/high-court-rules-state-of-emergency-must-end-midnight-friday-says-30-day-declaration-not-justified\/\">High court rules state of emergency must end midnight Friday, says 30-day declaration not justified &#8211; CuencaHighLife<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ecuador\u2019s Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that President Lenin Moreno\u2019s 30-day Covid-19 state of emergency must end at midnight Friday and that continuing it until the end of the month would amount to an infringement on the constitutional rights of the country\u2019s citizens.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81226\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-81226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ecuador\u2019s Constitutional Court<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Moreno had declared the emergency April 1 for eight provinces that had seen a recent rise in the number of Covid cases. By executive decree, the state of emergency was to end April 30 in Azuay, El Oro, Esmeraldas, Guayas, Loja, Manab\u00ed, Pichincha and Santo Domingo de los Ts\u00e1chilas Provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, the order imposed a daily 8 p.m. nightly curfew, suspended in-person work for public employees, imposed driving restrictions on national roadways and restricted the sale of alcoholic beverages.<\/p>\n<p>In its ruling, the court said it chose April 9 to end the emergency restrictions so that they would not interfere with Sunday\u2019s presidential runoff election. \u201cThe state of emergency should not interrupt the\u00a0<span class=\"VIiyi\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"JLqJ4b\" data-language-for-alternatives=\"en\" data-language-to-translate-into=\"es\" data-phrase-index=\"0\">normal functioning of the State, especially the ongoing electoral process,\u201d the court said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In disallowing the 30-day emergency, the court ruled that the government\u2019s action was not \u201cproportionate\u201d to the risk of the pandemic, saying the suspension of civil rights required \u201cextensive\u201d justification.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for court president Hern\u00e1n Salgado said that the court was also concerned about the damage and disruption that the emergency would have on businesses and day-to-day personal activities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: High court rules state of emergency must end midnight Friday, says 30-day declaration not justified &#8211; CuencaHighLife Ecuador\u2019s Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that President Lenin Moreno\u2019s 30-day Covid-19 state of emergency must end at midnight Friday and that continuing it until the end of the month would amount to an infringement on the constitutional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/high-court-rules-state-of-emergency-must-end-midnight-friday-says-30-day-declaration-not-justified-cuencahighlife\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High court rules state of emergency must end midnight Friday, says 30-day declaration not justified &#8211; CuencaHighLife<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,56,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10075,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions\/10075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}