Following a maximum of seven days after the publication of the decree of dissolution, the National Electoral Council shall call for legislative and presidential elections to be held, on the same date, for the remainder of the respective periods.
Until the National Assembly is installed, the President of the Republic may, subject to the favourable opinion of the Constitutional Court, issue urgent economic decree-laws, which may be approved or overturned by the legislature.
[11]Article 130 reads: The National Assembly shall be able to remove the President of the Republic from office in the following cases: (1) for assuming functions that do not come under his/her competence, subject to the favourable ruling of the Constitutional Court; (2) because of a serious political crisis and domestic upheaval.
Within 72 hours of the conclusion of the procedure provided for by law, the National Assembly shall issue a ruling, with a statement of its reasons, on the basis of the evidence for his/her defence submitted by the President of the Republic.
[11]Muerte cruzada was triggered for the first time on 17 May 2023 by President Guillermo Lasso after the opposition-led National Assembly had brought impeachment proceedings against him on charges of embezzlement.