Los decretos de estado de excepción por desastres naturales en el ecuador y la garantía constitucional de motivación

Abstract

The present investigation revolves around the power that the President of the Republic of Ecuador has, to declare the entire national territory or part of it, under an Exception Status, whose executive decree in its content must necessarily observe the constitutional guarantee of motivation, which has been widely developed in the national and international constitutional jurisprudence, regarding the parameters that constitute it, always seeking to avoid discretionary and arbitrary actions by the state authorities. The qualitative approach applied, allowed to analyze and explain the causes of the scarce, contradictory, impertinent or apparent motivation of the executive decrees of the Exception State due to natural disasters in which the decisions of the authority are manifested, resorting to a field investigation through the application of surveys, and a documentary investigation through the collection of the data contained in the administrative acts called executive decrees of the Exception State due to natural disasters in the period 2009-2017, and their respective judgments or constitutionality rulings, in which the technique of observation and case analysis was applied. From the findings, it was evidenced as a general rule, that the control carried out by the Constitutional Court to the Exception State, is simply a formalism that seeks to satisfy the aspirations and provisions emanating from the Executive; Since all the opinions or judgments of constitutionality are favorable, without applying in any of the cases the Motivation Test that involves the parameters of reasonableness, logic and comprehensibility developed by the Court itself, without a doubt this omission of the Control Body responds to coercions or interests of a political nature, without considering at all that various fundamental rights of the people affected by the declaration are at risk. Finally, it is sought that the Executive Function assumes corrective measures regarding the due motivation of its Exception State decrees, framing them in strict compliance with all constitutional principles and guarantees, so that in their application no type of fundamental right.