[1] Cerda was elected to the National Assembly of Ecuador as a member of the Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country.

She was suspended for eight days from the assembly and the Pachakutik Napo movement was harsher disowning her for 180days.

[3] In December 2021 her fellow party member, Gissella Molina, was accused by the President, Guillermo Lasso, of taking a bribe to vote against an Investment Law project.

In the case of pregnant women it would also allow then to choose whether they wanted a traditional approach during labour.

[6] Cerda did not attend a meeting in May 2022 at the prosecutors office in Quito to hear the case brought by Guillermo Lasso.